{"product_id":"drifting-house-9780571276202","title":"Drifting House","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA haunting and unforgettable debut spanning the last seventy years of Korean history, including the BBC Short Story Prize shortlisted story ''The Goose Father''.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlternating between the lives of Koreans struggling through seventy years of turbulent, post-World War II history in their homeland and the communities of Korean immigrants grappling with assimilation in the United States, Krys Lee''s haunting debut story collection \u003ci\u003eDrifting House \u003c\/i\u003eweaves together intricate tales of family and love, abandonment and loss on both sides of the Pacific.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the title story, children escaping famine in North Korea are forced to make unthinkable sacrifices to survive. The tales set in America reveal the immigrants'' unmoored existence, playing out in cramped apartments and Koreatown strip malls, from the abandoned wife in ''A Temporary Marriage'' who enters into a sham marriage to find her kidnapped daughter to the makeshift family in ''At the Edge of the World'' which i\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403094532439,"sku":"9780571276202","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/drifting-house-9780571276202","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}