One Thousand Chestnut Trees - Softcover

Stout, Mira

 
9780006548577: One Thousand Chestnut Trees
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0006548571 ISBN 13: 9780006548577
Verlag: Fourth Estate, 2010

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An epic tale of an enigmatic land – Korea – and one woman’s search for her past.

Uncle Hong-do arrives in Vermont from Korea to see the sister he has never met, a concert violinist long settled in America. His colourful visit turns his teenage niece Anna’s world upside down, disrupting her cosy existence with his eccentric customs, forcing into it a fresh and intriguing tang of Korea. Then, too soon, he returns to Seoul.

When Anna leaves for the orient many years later to uncover her family’s elusive history, her departure stirs up vivid, shocking memories for her mother, of her gilded childhood in Korea and the story of her noble clan’s fall from power.

Long ago, her grandfather, Lord Min, commanded his own private armies and his vast estates straddled North and South. In defiance of centuries of barbarous invasions – by the Japanese, Manchus, and finally the Communists – he built a temple high in the mountains, and planted one thousand chestnut trees to shield it from view. Now, generations later, his trees call back his great-granddaughter, and Anna sets out with Uncle Hong-do to find the hidden temple.

A powerful mixture of memoir and fiction – the ‘Wild Swans’ of Korea.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

MIRA STOUT’s internationally acclaimed first novel, One Thousand Chestnut Trees, was nominated for the IMPAC award, first runner up for the Shiva Naipaul Award and chosen for the New York Public Library 'Books for the New Year'. Her long-awaited second novel, Moon Trees is soon to be published. Her first play, A Cool Dry Place was developed by The National Theatre Studio and by The Old Vic. She is developing two film projects, and lives in London.

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Verlag
Fourth Estate
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0006548571
ISBN 13 
9780006548577
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
336
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