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Talarigo, Jeff.
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Korea (North) -- Fiction.
Korea (North) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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Talarigo, Jeff.
Korea (North) -- Fiction.
Korea (North) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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The
ginseng
hunter
/ Jeff Talarigo.
by
Talarigo, Jeff.
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2008.
Call #:
FICTION TAL
Subjects
Korea (North) -- Fiction.
Korea (North) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780385517393
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
177 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Summary:
"A Chinese
ginseng
hunter
lives alone in the valley and spends his days up in the mountains looking for
ginseng
and preparing for winter. He is scarcely aware of the larger world until shadowy figures hiding in the fields, bodies floating in the river, and rumors of thievery and murder begin to intrude on his cherished solitude. On one of his monthly trips to Yanji, where he buys supplies and visits a brothel, he meets a young North Korean prostitute. Through her vivid tales, the tragedy occurring across the river unfolds, and over the course of the year the
hunter
unnervingly discovers that the fates of the young woman and four others rest in his hands. Spare, intimate, and strikingly atmospheric, The
Ginseng
Hunter
takes us into the little-understood lives of North Koreans and confirms Jeff Talarigo's immense gift for storytelling."--Inside jacket.
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