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"A magnificent novel with a grand vision and assured execution.”

—Ha Jin, author ofWaiting

“A magical, brutal novel that shines light into the little-known world of a modernizing Korea of s with its vestiges of American occupation, along with the mysteries of ancestors and the hungry ghosts of worlds we cannot see.” 

—Marie Myung-Ok Lee, author ofThe Evening Hero

“The novel in your hands is something I never knew I’d see, born from things at least two governments hoped to hide.

A mixed German Korean boy in s Korea undertakes a quest to save the living with what the dead might know, and he tells us stories across time of this almost-vanished world and the lives of those thrown away by Korean society and American military forces—his family. Precious, life-altering, rebellious, funny, and full of a necessary truth.”  

—Alexander Chee, author of Queen of the Night

“This is a mesmerizing take on what happens when civil