8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster

Name: 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster
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Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024

By Mirinae Lee

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2024 WILLIAM SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WRITING LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE 'Captivating' - New York Times 'Dazzling' - Financial Times 'Heartbreaking' - Monica Ali SLAVE. ESCAPE-ARTIST. MURDERER.... Read More

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8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster

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8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster

A dazzlingly original, moving and thought-provoking novel about one woman's struggle to survive throughout a century of Korean history

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

WINNER OF THE 2024 WILLIAM SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WRITING

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE

'Captivating' - New York Times

'Dazzling' - Financial Times

'Heartbreaking' - Monica Ali

SLAVE. ESCAPE-ARTIST. MURDERER. TERRORIST. SPY. LOVER. MOTHER. TRICKSTER.

At the Golden Sunset retirement home, it is not unusual for residents to invent stories. So when elderly Ms Mook first begins to unspool her memories, the obituarist listening to her is sceptical. Stories of captivity, friendship, murder, assumed identities and spying. A life that moves from WWII Indonesia to Busan during the Korean war; from cold-war Pyongyang to a Protestant church in China. The adventures are so colourful and various, at times so unbelievable. Surely they can't all belong to the same woman. Can they?

8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024, announced on 5th March 2024.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780349016771

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 18 April 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Virago Press Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 126.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 240g

Pages: 304

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About the Author

Mirinae Lee grew up in Seoul. Her short fiction has appeared in the Antioch Review, Meridian, Black Warrior Review, Pleiades, Shenandoah, and the Massachusetts Review. She lives in Hong Kong with her husband and children. 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster is her first novel. It has been published in the UK, the US and Italy and was a top-ten bestseller in Italy.