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The ginseng hunter
- Title
- The ginseng hunter / Jeff Talarigo.
- Author
- Talarigo, Jeff.
- Publication
- New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3620.A525 G56 2008 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 177 pages : 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."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- ISBN
- 9780385517393
- 0385517394
- LCCN
- 2007011395
- 40015384506
- OCLC
- ocm86110055\
- 86110055
- SCSB-5406840
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries