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The naked tree / Keum Suk Gendry-Kim ; translated by Janet Hong.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Korean Edition: First editionDescription: 312 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 1770466673
  • 9781770466678
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 741.5/95195 23
LOC classification:
  • PN6790 .K63 G46413 2023
Summary: "The year is 1951. Twenty-year-old wallflower Lee Kyung ekes out a living at the US Post Exchange, where goods and services of varying stripe are available for purchase. She peddles hand-painted portraits on silk handkerchiefs to soldiers passing through. When a handsome young northern escapee and erstwhile fine artist is hired despite waning demand, an unlikely friendship blossoms into a young woman's first brush with desire against the backdrop of the Korean War at its most devastating."--
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Martha's Vineyard High School Library GRAPHIC/FIC/GEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39844500071156

Adapted from The naked tree by Park Wan-suh.

"The year is 1951. Twenty-year-old wallflower Lee Kyung ekes out a living at the US Post Exchange, where goods and services of varying stripe are available for purchase. She peddles hand-painted portraits on silk handkerchiefs to soldiers passing through. When a handsome young northern escapee and erstwhile fine artist is hired despite waning demand, an unlikely friendship blossoms into a young woman's first brush with desire against the backdrop of the Korean War at its most devastating."--

Translated from the Korean.

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