Mira Stout: One Thousand Chestnut Trees

by Philip Gowman on 8 April, 2006

in Book reviews: Foreign literature

Thousand Chestnut Tress(Flamingo, 1997)

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Absorbing and very moving book in which the narrator pursues her family history through turbulent twentieth-century Korea. Quite a good introduction to modern Korean history if you’ve never read a history book, but this novel’s much more than that.

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