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Product details
- ISBN 9780413778413
- Format: Hardback
- Dimensions: 135 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jul 2021
- Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Mia Kim's debut novel, ME, THEN, set in Sixties post-war Korea, is a harrowing story of Su-young's life with her aunt and her family. After a series of disastrous stays in various foster homes, the five year old Su-young, an illegitimate child, a lasting stigma in traditionalist Korea, hopes to find a stable home with her aunt. Her mother works and lives at an American army base on the outskirts of Seoul and visits Su-young at weekends. But the visits come to an abrupt end when her mother marries a US Army soldier and flies to America, leaving Su-young behind. And soon, her aunt's family's fortunes turn for the worse. Her aunt cuts off all contact between Su-young and her mother and steals all monies sent for Su-young's care and education. A few months of separation turn into seven years. Alone in a hostile environment of deprivation and abuse, Su-young spirals down. Her only refuge is her love of music. Su-young's fight for survival will hold the reader in suspense until the final page.
MIA KIM grew up in Seoul, Korea. She has a Masters degree from Eastman School of Music. As an accomplished artist, Kim has had several sold out exhibitions of her paintings in New York. ME, THEN is her debut novel. Kim lives in Connecticut, USA.
