02791cam a2200337 4500 681809330 TxAuBib 20230302120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781954118201 1954118201 B09RSRH4HM Amazon ef6fb0e3-b005-438b-8198-60c12a59f9bf OverDrive (Reserve ID) 8774561 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Fenkl, Heinz Insu. Skull Water [Libby eBook] : A Novel. Spiegel & Grau, 2023. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2374kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p><b>A "mesmerizing" (James McBride), "magnificent" (Ha Jin) intergenerational coming-of-age novel set in South Korea—about friendship, belonging, and displacement.</b></p> <p>Growing up outside a US military base in South Korea in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, Insu—the son of a Korean mother and a German father enlisted in the US Army—spends his days with his "half and half" friends skipping school, selling scavenged Western goods on the black market, watching Hollywood movies, and testing the boundaries between childhood and adulthood. When he hears a legend that water collected in a human skull will cure any sickness, he vows to find some in order to heal his ailing Big Uncle, a geomancer who has been exiled by the family to a mountain cave to die.</p> <p>Insu's quest takes him and his friends on a sprawling, wild journey into some of South Korea's darkest corners, opening them up to a world beyond their grasp. Meanwhile, Big Uncle has embraced his solitude and fate, and as he recalls his wartime experiences of betrayal and lost love, he attempts to teach his nephew that life is not limited to what we can see—or think we know.</p> <p>Largely autobiographical and deeply rooted in time and place, <i>Skull Water</i> is the story of a boy coming into his own—and the ways the past continues to haunt the present in a country struggling to confront its troubled history as it moves into modernity.</p>. Literature. Mythology. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-03-02 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ef6fb0e3-b005-438b-8198-60c12a59f9bf&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ef6fb0e3-b005-438b-8198-60c12a59f9bf&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ef6fb0e3-b005-438b-8198-60c12a59f9bf&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXTLL