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A hard cover edition with cream boards, charcoal cloth spine, gilt lettering and clipped, illustrated dust cover. Uncut edges. There is some wear and rubbing to the edges of the book and dust cover. There is foxing and toning throughout but the text is clear and legible. now in a clear, removable cover to protect from damage. Second hand/used book.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York.
Publication Date: 1992
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As the Chinese and the army of the North sweep south during the Korean War, an old peasant farmer and his wife flee their village across the bleak, bombed-out landscape. They soon come upon a boy in a ditch who is wounded and unconscious. Stirred by possessiveness and caring the woman refuses to leave the boy behind. The man thinks she is crazy to nurse this boy, to risk their lives for some dying stranger. Angry and bewildered, he waits for the boy to die. And when the boy does not die, the old man begins to believe that the boy possesss a magic upon which all their lives depend….
| Weight | 0.495 kg |
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