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junia
Jul 06, 2017 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Fantastic

This book is amazing albeit a bit slow at the start (I really need to start with reading the brief summaries more). He is poetic, there are lovely lyrical parts that can stand on their own. There are graphic accounts that are terrible to read. As I learn more and connect and edit what I think I know, I can't help but make the obvious connections to the Koreas - a point the protagonist briefly goes over at some point in the book..

There commentaries on whitewashing and voice in the retell ...more
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Chrissie
Dec 03, 2015 rated it really liked it
The last part of this book is what made it for me. I started to lose interest in the middle, but it grabbed me again at the end.

I also loved the short excerpts of the author's non-fiction writing that were included at the end. ...more
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Cristella
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Ryan
Apr 21, 2016 rated it it was ok
Shelves: borrowed, 2016, pulitzer
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Lily
Apr 10, 2017 rated it it was amazing
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katayoun Masoodi
Aug 21, 2017 marked it as tbr-ebook
Shelves: ebook, fiction
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Sep 27, 2017 marked it as to-read
Megan
Mar 23, 2018 rated it it was ok  ·  review of another edition
Bailey
Jul 08, 2018 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Nora
Aug 09, 2018 rated it really liked it
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Jess
Mar 10, 2020 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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