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'Seven accounts told achronologically and ranging from 1938 to 2006 reveal a series of startling transformations involving cross-dressing spying identity theft motherhood and murder ... A dazzling feat of narrative sophistication and historical invention' Financial Times 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 Busan 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? 'A gripping story set against the backdrop of Korea's turbulent history ... brilliant and original' Washington Post 'Soaring fierce bold and intoxicating... an unforgettable portrait of a Korean woman navigating her place in the world over the course of almost a hundred years' Marjan Kamali author of The Stationery Shop of Tehran 'Enthralling captivating tantalising ... keeps readers hooked' New York Times

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