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One Thousand Chestnut Trees
An epic tale of an enigmatic land - Korea - and one womans search for her past. Uncle Hong-do arrives in Vermont from Korea to see the sister he has never met a concert violinist long settled in America. His colourful visit turns his teenage niece Annas world upside down disrupting her cosy existence with his eccentric customs forcing into it a fresh and intriguing tang of Korea. Then too soon he returns to Seoul. When Anna leaves for the orient many years later to uncover her familys elusive history her departure stirs up vivid shocking memories for her mother of her gilded childhood in Korea and the story of her noble clans fall from power. Long ago her grandfather Lord Min commanded his own private armies and his vast estates straddled North and South. In defiance of centuries of
barbarous invasions - by the Japanese Manchus and finally the Communists - he built a temple high in the mountains and planted one thousand chestnut trees to shield it from view. Now generations later his trees call back his great-granddaughter and Anna sets out with Uncle Hong-do to find the hidden temple. A powerful mixture of memoir and fiction - the Wild Swans of Korea.
barbarous invasions - by the Japanese Manchus and finally the Communists - he built a temple high in the mountains and planted one thousand chestnut trees to shield it from view. Now generations later his trees call back his great-granddaughter and Anna sets out with Uncle Hong-do to find the hidden temple. A powerful mixture of memoir and fiction - the Wild Swans of Korea.
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