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Honey in the Wound: A magical and epic tale of survival set over a century of Korean history
Author(s): Jiyoung Han (Author)
- Publisher: Manilla Press
- Publication Date: 16 April 2026
- Language: English
- Print length: 320 pages
- ISBN-10: 1786587327
- ISBN-13: 9781786587329
Book Description
A lyrical and suspenseful debut novel about a mysteriously gifted Korean family confronting the brutality of the Japanese empire.
A sister disappears and returns as a tiger. A mothers voice compels the truth from any tongue. A granddaughter divines secrets in others dreams.
Spanning ninety years as one family is displaced across Asia, this novel follows Young-Ja, who finds herself struggling to survive after her family is killed by Japanese soldiers. The magical gift that once brought her joy – the ability to infuse her cooking with her feelings: love, peace, delight – transforms into something more powerful as her sorrow and anger seeps into her confections.
When her talent is noticed by a Korean resistance fighter, shes taken to Manchuria where she becomes enmeshed in a network of spies at a teahouse favoured by Japanese officials. Haunted at every turn by the spectre of Japanese soldiers, she endures horrors and brutality at the hands of the Imperial Army.
With spellbinding inter-generational sweep and atmospheric magical realism, Honey in the Wound explores the ways colonialism forces one family to transform, and ultimately survive.
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