8 lives of a century-old trickster / Mirinae Lee.
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TextPublisher: London : Virago, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Description: 290 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780349016757; 1639102361Other title: Eight lives of a century-old tricksterSubject(s): Survival -- Fiction | Nursing homes -- Fiction | Retirement communities -- Fiction | Older people -- Fiction | World War 1939-1945 -- Fiction | Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Fiction | Deception -- Fiction | Tricksters -- Fiction | Cold War -- Fiction | Betrayal -- FictionGenre/Form: War fiction. Summary: At the Golden Sunset retirement home, it is not unusual for residents to invent stories. So when elderly Ms Mook first begins to unspool her memories, the obituarist listening to her is sceptical. Stories of captivity, friendship, murder, adventure, assumed identities and spying. Stories that take place in WWII Indonesia; in Busan during the Korean war; in cold-war Pyongyang; in China. The stories are so colourful and various, at times so unbelievable, that they cannot surely all belong to the same woman. Can they?
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At the Golden Sunset retirement home, it is not unusual for residents to invent stories. So when elderly Ms Mook first begins to unspool her memories, the obituarist listening to her is sceptical. Stories of captivity, friendship, murder, adventure, assumed identities and spying. Stories that take place in WWII Indonesia; in Busan during the Korean war; in cold-war Pyongyang; in China. The stories are so colourful and various, at times so unbelievable, that they cannot surely all belong to the same woman. Can they?
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