![]() At South Korea’s top university, the nat. Obscured text on back cover due to sticker attached. Two young women of vastly different means each struggle to find her own way during the darkest hours of South Korea’s economic miracle in a striking debut novel for readers of Anthony Marra and Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie. Jimin Han ( A Small Revolution, 2017) and Yoojin Grace Wuertz (Everything Belongs to US, 2017) read from their new novels, which interrogate 1970s and 1980s. Wuertz explores the relationships that bind these students to each other, as well as the private anxieties and desires that drive them to succeed". And at the edges of their friendship is Junho, whose ambitions have taken him to new heights in the university's most prestigious social club, called "the circle," and yet who guards a dangerous secret that is tied to his status. Similarly to Sophie McManus’ The Unfortunates. Drawn to both of these women is Sunam, a seeming social-climber who is at heart a lost boy struggling to find his place in a cutthroat world. Everything Belongs to Us rotates amongst the three students to provide a stratified cross-section of life in South Korea’s tumultuous infancy. ![]() The novel follows the fates of two women-Jisun, the daughter of a powerful tycoon, who eschews her privilege to become an underground labor activist in Seoul and Namin, her best friend from childhood, a brilliant, tireless girl who has grown up with nothing, and whose singular goal is to launch herself and her family out of poverty. ![]() "This debut novel takes place at the elite Seoul National University in 1970s South Korea during the final years of a repressive regime. ![]()
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