Lee, Mirinae. 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster - Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024. Little, Brown Book Group, 2023.

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Mirinae Lee

8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster

Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024

Little, Brown Book Group
2023

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304 Seiten
ISBN 9780349016740

SLAVE. ESCAPE-ARTIST. MURDERER. TERRORIST. SPY. LOVER. MOTHER. TRICKSTER. At the Golden Sunset retirement home, it is not unusual for residents to invent stories. So when elderly Ms Mook first begins to unspool her memories, the obituarist listening to her is sceptical. Stories of captivity, friendship, murder, adventure, assumed identities and spying. Stories that take place in WWII Indonesia; in Seoul during the Korean war; in cold-war Pyongyang; in China. The stories are so colourful and various, at times so unbelievable, that they cannot surely all belong to the same woman. Can they? As playful and thought-provoking as it is compelling, as brutal and harrowing as it

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is achingly poignant and tender, this is a novel about love and war, deceit and betrayal, about identity, storytelling and the trickery required for survival.