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The House with a Sunken Courtyard

ID 455941
Slug the-house-with-a-sunken-courtyard-kim-won-il
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Annotation
Description An occasionally terrifying and always vivid portrayal of what it was like to live as a refugee immediately after the end of the Korean War. This novel is based on the author's own experience in his early teens in Daegu, in 1954, and depicts six families that survive the hard times together in the same house, weathering the tiny conflicts of interest and rivalries that spring up in such close quarters, but nonetheless offering one another sympathy and encouragement as fellow sufferers of the same national misfortune: brothers and sisters in privation.
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Publisher Dalkey Archive Press
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Language eng
Page count 229
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Publication date first 2013-01-01
Publication date latest 2013-01-01
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