All Woman and Springtime
Format: kindle
ASIN: B007RG70RQ
Publish date: July 12th 2012
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pages no: 379
Edition language: English
I'd never read a book based in North Korea before. To be honest, most of what I know comes from the media and the internet, and I think there are actually few pieces of literature out there that focus on the people and what their lives are like. Aside from the funny memes on Tumblr, do we really kno...
Review first posted on my blog: http://memoriesfrombooks.blogspot.com/2013/04/all-woman-and-springtime.htmlAll Woman and Springtime is the story of two friends Gyong-Ho and Il-Sun. The two meet as young girls in an orphanage in North Korea. Both are learning to live with the devastation their young...
I am ambivalent about this novel. It talks about North Korea and life there and then switches focus to South Korea and the exploitation of women. The chapters are short so it does not ape pseudo-serious chunky proses so one can read through it pretty quickly but I was looking for more insights into ...
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