The Court Dancer by Kyung-sook Shin, translated by Anton Hur [in Booklist]
16 Jul, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Repost, Translation
*STARRED REVIEW Man Asian Literary Prize-winning Kyung-sook Shin (The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness, 2015) alchemizes a brief mention in a French diplomat’s book about his turn-of-the-century Korean tenure into a gorgeous epic that seamlessly combines history and fiction to create a hybrid masterpiece. In 1888, France’s first...