8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster

Slave. Escape-Artist. Murderer. Terrorist. Spy. Lover. Mother. Trickster. A troubled childhood in a humble North Korean village. A brutal 'comfort station', run by Japanese soldiers in WWII Indonesia. A boy in South Korea, helping Korean women forced to service American soldiers in the Korean war. A mad ghost running through the wild grasses by the Imjin river, where South Korea meets North. A marriage as happy and loving as it is riddled with deception. A daughter with talent, ambition and the same dogged desire for survival as her mother. This is a novel about one woman whose life spans a century. It's a story about love and war, deceit and betrayal, about spying, storytelling and the trickery required for survival.