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020 $a0609609343 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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100 1 $aLee, Helie.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95090856
245 10 $aIn the absence of sun :$ba Korean American woman's promise to reunite three lost generations of her family /$cby Helie Lee.
260 $aNew York :$bHarmony Books,$c2002.
263 $a0204
300 $a342 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, map, portraits ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"Helie Lee often had heard her grandmother speak of an uncle, lost decades ago when he was a child during the family's daring escape from North Korea. As an adult, he was still living there under horrid conditions. When her grandmother began to ail, Helie became determined to reunite her with her eldest son, despite tremendous odds.
520 8 $aHelie's mission became even more urgent when she realized that her first book, the bestselling novel Still Life with Rice, about the family's escape, might have angered the North Korean government and put her uncle in danger.".
520 8 $a"Pushing through rivers and forests, fighting the cold, bribing and manipulating border guards, gangsters, and secret service agents, Helie and her father finally achieve their goal. But there are many hurdles. Her uncle is forced to make a horrowing choice: leave his North Korean family behind or continue to live in oppression and starvation away from his beloved mother. And Helie has to face her deep, sometimes ambivalent, emotions about her identity in the family and as a Korean American woman.
520 8 $aUnmarried and outspoken, she struggles in Korea, where women marry early and keep silent, and writes eloquently about the landscape there, both literal and cultural. She comes through a heartbreaking love affair only to face an intense and confusing relationship with the Guide - the man who, despite being crude and macho, ultimately helps to save her uncle and eventually his extended family through several daring acts of heroism."--BOOK JACKET.
600 30 $aLee family.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85075685
600 30 $aYi family.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87001336
600 10 $aPaek, Hong-yong,$d1912-2002$xFamily.
651 0 $aCalifornia$vGenealogy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114547
651 0 $aKorea (North)$vGenealogy.
852 00 $bbar,stor$hCT274.L44$iI5 2002
852 00 $bglx$hCT274.L44$iI5 2002