2 Ergebnisse.

Several decades after the Korean War, the unnamed narrator, an orphan in his early teens, is taken in by an aged Turk, a veteran of the Korean War. Uncle Hassan makes a living as a butcher in a Seoul slum. The narrator is a precocious, troubled boy, who wonders who his parents are, why they abandoned him, what life is all about. In this neighborhood, the narrator befriends a number of people, all poor and downtrodden--Dickensian characters inc...

Several decades after the Korean War, the unnamed narrator of this story is taken in by an aged Turk, Uncle Hassan, who makes a living as a butcher in a Seoul slum. The novel begins with "my adoptive father's blood flows in my body” and ends with an echo, "my adoptive father's blood is still flowing in my body.” In between, the narrator is healed by flawed but sympathetic characters.