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Opinion French novelist traces Korean history through a North Korean spyJuliette Morillot’s ‘Entre la terre et le sang’ moves across decades from Kaesong, Jeju, Japan and Pyongyang.
 A North Korean spy’s extraordinary journey from colonial Korea to Jeju, Japan and Pyongyang becomes a vehicle for exploring the peninsula’s turbulent modern history in Juliette Morillot’s sweeping historical novel “Entre la terre et le sang,” or “Between Earth and Blood.” Mansu is a schoolgirl living in Kaesong on Aug. 15, 1945, the date of her nation’s liberation and the day that the Japanese emperor announces over the radio Tokyo’s decision to surrender to the Allies. Moscow and Washington then promptly occupy and divide the nation at the 38th parallel. Mansu’s adventures begin when her mother, after taking her © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |
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