8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster

Mirinae Lee, Cindy Kay

eAudio - 2023

"Fantastically original doesn't begin to describe this exhilarating globe-spanning, decade-hopping masterpiece. Lee has achieved the impossible—from a fractured century of agonies and betrayals, she has woven a novel of immense beauty and regeneration." — Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Longlisted for the Women's Prize in Fiction.Joining the acclaimed ranks of Pachinko and A Woman is No Man, a riveting and genre-bending debut of love and survival, set in the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea.Life near the North Korean border is a zero-sum game, an ongoing battle in which you either win or you lose. This dangerous, shadowed netherworld is home to an unforgettable woman kno...wn only as the "trickster."Inspired by the story of Lee's great aunt, one of the oldest women to escape alone from North Korea, 8 Lives... more