Jia : A Novel of North Korea (Paperback)

from Katong

A compassionate storyteller, a compelling story and situation. The author sometimes struggles to keep sentimentality in check, because its wrenching material. The author is a globally-oriented South Korean (US Phd, living in Singapore, studied in China), writing about North Korean refugees in Chi...

from SqueakyChu

I really enjoyed reading this book although the topic is painful. It's about a woman whose mother died in childbirth. The daughter had a father of the "lower class" and a mother of the North Korean elite. With help, she is given the opportunity to go to the capital city Pyongyang to live a less d...

from SqueakyChu

I really enjoyed reading this book although the topic is painful. It's about a woman whose mother died in childbirth. The daughter had a father of the "lower class" and a mother of the North Korean elite. With help, she is given the opportunity to go to the capital city Pyongyang to live a less d...