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The liberators : a novel
- Title
- The liberators : a novel / E. J. Koh.
- Author
- Koh, EJ, 1988-
- Publication
- Portland, Oregon : Tin House, 2023.
- ©2023
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 24-293 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 225 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "At the height of the military dictatorship in South Korea, Insuk and Sungho are arranged to be married. The couple soon moves to San Jose, California, with an infant and Sungho's overbearing mother-in-law. Adrift in a new country, Insuk grieves the loss of her past and her divided homeland, finding herself drawn into an illicit relationship that sets into motion a dramatic saga and echoes for generations to come. From the Gwangju Massacre to the 1988 Olympics, flashbacks to Korean repatriation after Japanese surrender, and the Sewol ferry accident, E. J. Koh's exquisitely drawn portraits and symphonic testimony from guards, prisoners, perpetrators, and liberators spans continents and four generations of two Korean families forever changed by fateful past decisions made in love and war. Extraordinarily beautiful and deeply moving, The Liberators is an elegantly wrought family saga of memory, trauma, and empathy, and a stunning testament to the consequences and fortunes of inheritance"--
- Subject
- Arranged marriage > Fiction
- Koreans > United States > Fiction
- Korean Americans > Fiction
- Adultery > Fiction
- Intergenerational relations > Fiction
- Arranged marriage
- Koreans
- Korean Americans
- Koreans > Fiction
- Korean American families > Fiction
- Living arrangements
- Marriage
- Non-consensual non-monogamy
- Non-monogamy
- Adultery
- Intergenerational relations
- California > Fiction
- Taejŏn-si (Korea) > Fiction
- United States
- Korea
- California
- Korea (South) > Taejŏn-si
- Genre/Form
- Historical fiction.
- Novels.
- Domestic fiction.
- Choral novels.
- Fiction.
- Note
- Includes a readers guide (pages 221-225).
- Contents
- Invisible lines -- Animal kingdom -- Colony of light -- The endling.
- Call Number
- JFD 24-293
- ISBN
- 9781959030157
- 1959030159
- 9781959030225 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2023025051
- OCLC
- 1369511523
- Author
- Koh, EJ, 1988- author.
- Title
- The liberators : a novel / E. J. Koh.
- Publisher
- Portland, Oregon : Tin House, 2023.
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Edition
- First US edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFD 24-293