Princess Bari, Hwang Sok-yong politics & satire a path once so familiar

a path once so familiar yet rendered foreign by the heartache of displacement

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Gabriel does not pursue him alone

Princess Bari, Hwang Sok-yong politics & satire a path once so familiarIn a drab North Korean city, a seventh daughter is born to a couple longing for a son. Abandoned hours after her birth, she is eventually rescued by her grandmother. The old woman names the child Bari, after a legend telling of a forsaken princess who undertakes a quest for an elixir that will bring peace to the souls of the dead. As a young woman, frail, brave Bari escapes North Korea and takes refuge in China before embarking on a journey across the