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    Dec 07, 2021 4 minutes
    Reviews editor: Dinyar Godrej
    Reviewers: Jo Lateu, Peter Whittaker, Vanessa Baird, Dinyar Godrej

    Beasts of a Little Land

    by Juhea Kim

    (One World Publications, ISBN 9780861543229)

    oneworld-publications.com

    Korea, 1917, and on the eve of the Japanese invasion a young girl is sold by her desperate family to a school for courtesans in Pyongyang. She meets and befriends an orphan boy who is living on the streets. For a while, they are inseparable, but as time passes their lives take very different trajectories, with Jade becoming a famous performer and JungHo joining the communist revolutionaries trying to win Korean independence. Though their paths occasionally cross, they know that, along with their innocence, something irrevocable in their friendship

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