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The Guest - Hwang Sŏk-yŏng, Kyung-Ja Chun, Maya West
The Guest
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9781583227
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Pages no: 234
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature, Cultural, Historical Fiction, War, Religion, Politics, Asia
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In Korea, the term ‘the guest’ refers to Smallpox, a western disease that wiped out many hundreds of people across the nation. The local shaman would preform a ritual to exorcise ‘the guest’ by going through twelve rounds that cross between the boundaries of the dead and the living.The Guest in this...
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