by Sok-yong Hwang · Philippe Picquier · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782809711141
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«Princesse Bari» is the novel by Sok-yong Hwang published by Philippe Picquier in paperback (288 pages, in French).
Bari flees North Korea in the late 1990s and arrives in London hidden on a cargo ship. There she works as a masseuse and, thanks to the clairvoyance inherited from her grandmother, enters the dreams of others and reads their nightmares. The novel recreates the legend of Princess Bari, who seeks the water of life to appease the dead.
Original title: «바리데기». Translated from the Korean by Choi Mi-Kyung and Jean-Noël Juttet. French edition published on 20 August 2015.
For readers of contemporary Korean fiction, with elements of magical realism and shamanic mythology.
Hwang Sok-yong is a South Korean novelist.
