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Jia: A Novel of North Korea

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Jia: A Novel of North Korea - Kim, Hyejin
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The first novel about present-day North Korea to be published in the West. A moving and true-to-life tale of courage in the face of oppression and exile. Hyejin Kim's" Jia" follows the adventures of an orphaned young woman, Jia, who has the grace of a dancer but the misfortune of coming from a politically suspect family. In the isolated mining village of her childhood, Jia's father, a science teacher, questions government intrusion into his classroom and is taken away by police, never to be heard from again. Now Jia must ...

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Jia: A Novel of North Korea 2007, Cleis Press, San Francisco, CA

ISBN-13: 9781573442756

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