The Red Queen (Paperback)

from Kristelh

This novel is called a transcultural novel. It is like a story in a story. It starts with the story of a long sense dead Korean girl. She is telling the story from the other side. The second story is the story of the female who is reading the story of the Queen. She goes to Korea to a conference ...

from jmoncton

The Red Queen is two separate stories about 2 women separated by ethnicity, occupation and time. The first story is about the narrator of this book, a young girl who is chosen to be the bride of the mentally ill Crown Prince of Korea. Set 200 years ago, this part of the book provides a captivatin...

from gypsysmom

This book is on the 1001 Books to Read Before You Die list. I try to knock 10 a year off the list but since I am never going to live long enough to read all the books (This is #244) I try to concentrate on ones I am pretty sure I will enjoy. I did enjoy this and I'm glad I read it. The Red Queen ...

from japaul22

[The Red Queen] by [[Margaret Drabble]] I went into this book sort of expecting to be bored and confused based on some other reviews I read. Maybe it was my patient attitude because of this, but I actually really liked this! This is the story of The Crown Princess Hyegong who was a Korean prin...

from jolerie

None of us has full access to even our own stories. Page 7 The Red Queen is written in two distinct parts. The first half is a fictionalized memoir of the Crown Princess of Korea and her account of the tragic and tumultuous relationship between her husband the Crown Prince Sado and his father, Ki...