Marilyn and me
Lee, Ji-min2019
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Set in 1954, in the aftermath of the Korean war, 'Marilyn and Me' unfolds over the course of four days, when Marilyn Monroe - who was meant to be on honeymoon with Joe DiMaggio - toured Korea, performing for the US soldiers stationed there. Her translator is Alice, a typist on the US base - where she is the only Korean woman to make a living off the American military without being a prostitute (although everyone assumes she is). As these two women begin an unlikely friendship, the story of Alice's traumatic experience in the war emerges, and when she becomes embroiled in a sting operation involving the entrapment of a Communist spy she is forced to confront the past she has been trying so hard to forget.
Main title:
Marilyn and me / Ji-min Lee ; translated from the Korean by Chi-Young Kim.
Author:
Lee, Ji-min, authorKim, Chi-Young, translator
Imprint:
London : 4th Estate, 2019.
Collation:
170 pages : illustration (black and white) ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9780008322311 (hbk. :)
Language:
EnglishKorean
Subject:
BRN:
1866828
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Stratford Library | Adult fiction | Available |