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The last exiles : a novel

Shin, Ann (author.).

Summary: "Jin and Suja meet and fall in love while studying at university in Pyongyang. She is a young journalist from a prominent family, while he is from a small village of little means. Outside the school, North Korea has fallen under great political upheaval, plunged into chaos and famine. When Jin returns home to find his family starving, their food rations all but gone, he makes a rash decision that will haunt him for the rest of his life. Meanwhile, miles away, Suja has begun to feel the tenuousness of her privilege when she learns that Jin has disappeared. Risking everything, and defying her family, Suja sets out to find him, embarking on a dangerous journey that leads her into a dark criminal underbelly and tests their love and will to survive"--

Item details

ISBN: 9780778389415
ISBN: 0778389413
Physical Description: print
330 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Park Row Books, [2021]
Copyright: ©2021

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Subject:

Women journalists Korea (North) Fiction
Man-woman relationships Fiction
Poverty Fiction
Survival Fiction
Organized crime Fiction
Korea (North) Fiction
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FICTION / Women
FICTION / Literary

Genre:

Romance fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)

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