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Lee, Ji-Min.
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Monroe, Marilyn, 1926-1962 -- Fiction.
Women translators -- Fiction.
Female friendship -- Fiction.
Seoul (Korea) -- Fiction.
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Lee, Ji-Min.
Monroe, Marilyn, 1926-1962 -- Fiction.
Women translators -- Fiction.
Female friendship -- Fiction.
Seoul (Korea) -- Fiction.
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The starlet and the spy : a novel / Ji-Min Lee ; translated from the Korean by Chi-Young Kim.
by
Lee, Ji-Min.
HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2019.
Call #:
LP FICTION LEE
Subjects
Monroe,
Marilyn
, 1926-1962 -- Fiction.
Women translators -- Fiction.
Female friendship -- Fiction.
Seoul (Korea) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780062943880 (trade pbk.)
Alternate title:
Marilyn
and
me
.
Edition:
1st HarperLuxe ed.
Description:
199 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Notes:
"Larger print"--Cover.
Originally published as
Marilyn
and
Me
by Fourth Estate.
In English, translated from the Korean.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-199).
Summary:
February 1954. Although the Korean War armistice was signed a year ago, most citizens of Seoul still battle to return to some semblance of normalcy. Conditions are dismal. Children beg for food, and orphanages are teeming. Alice J. Kim, a Korean translator and typist for the American forces still sanctioned in the city, yearns for the life she used to live before her country was torn apart. Then Alice's boss makes an announcement--the American movie star
Marilyn
Monroe will be visiting Korea on a four-day USO tour, and Alice has been chosen as her translator. Though intrigued, Alice has few expectations of the job--what could she and a beautiful actress at the peak of her fame possibly have to talk about? Yet the
Marilyn
she meets, while just as dazzling and sensual as Alice expected, is also surprisingly approachable. As
Marilyn
's visit unfolds, Alice is forced into a reckoning with her own painful past. Moving and mesmerizing, The Starlet and the Spy is a beautiful portrayal of unexpected kinship between two very different women, and of the surprising connections that can change, or even save, a life.
Genre:
Korean fiction -- Translations into English.
Historical fiction.
Other authors:
Kim, Chi-Young.
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