Synopsis
An artist travels to Korea to escape her unhappy life in Manhattan and embarks on a quest to recover the past of her family, a once-noble clan that commanded armies and build a temple shrouded by chestnut trees. A first novel.
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Though uneven and overly ambitious, this first novel is saved by a long middle passage that may be one of the finest, most sensitive renderings of the Korean War that I've encountered in nearly three decades of reading about it.
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One Thousand Chestnut Trees : A Novel of Korea
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One Thousand Chestnut Trees : A Novel of Korea
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