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The Liberators

Tekijä: EJ Koh

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"At the height of the military dictatorship in South Korea, Insuk and Sungho are arranged to be married. The couple soon moves to San Jose, California, with an infant and Sungho's overbearing mother-in-law. Adrift in a new country, Insuk grieves the loss of her past and her divided homeland, finding herself drawn into an illicit relationship that sets into motion a dramatic saga and echoes for generations to come. From the Gwangju Massacre to the 1988 Olympics, flashbacks to Korean repatriation after Japanese surrender, and the Sewol ferry accident, E. J. Koh's exquisitely drawn portraits and symphonic testimony from guards, prisoners, perpetrators, and liberators spans continents and four generations of two Korean families forever changed by fateful past decisions made in love and war. Extraordinarily beautiful and deeply moving, The Liberators is an elegantly wrought family saga of memory, trauma, and empathy, and a stunning testament to the consequences and fortunes of inheritance"--… (lisätietoja)

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This book is a surprisingly short and spare telling of 30+ years in the life of a woman, Insuk, who flees South Korea for California with her husband Sungho after her own father is arrested and disappears. There, they build a life with Sungho's mother and their own son Henry. We see their struggles with each other, with cultural expectations, work, with missing a united Korea.

Koh does this all in just over 200 pages--we get Korean history, a family's history, with activists and immigrants' frustrations, Henry's frustrations as first generation, and the DIL-MIL relationship.

LARB's Radio Hour has an interesting interview with EJ Koh about this book. I admit the history in it is sparse, but I have read a surprising amount of Korean and Korean diaspora lit in the last 10 years or so, so this fit right into a framework I already have (Pachinko, Crying in H Mart, When Spring Comes to the DMZ, The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness, Don Mee Choi's poetry, and more). (

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Dreesie | Feb 4, 2024 |

I love a book that surprises me with beautiful writing, unexpected turns of phrases, and inventive storytelling. This short novel is one of those books. The story follows a South Korean family across thirty years, with backstories revealing the trauma of Korean history. It’s an emotional read.

Korea’s legacy of war, colonization, division, dictatorships, and missing persons has shattered the lives of the characters. Immigration to America does not fulfill their dreams. The Korean American community is still emotionally and culturally linked to the old country, and some dream of the reunification of their country which had been divided by America after the Korean war.

There are many memorable scenes, including the family watching the 2018 Olympics opening ceremony; during the traditional releasing of doves some landed on the Olympic cauldron; when it was lit, they were burned alive.

The Liberators is a fantastic read.

Thanks to the publisher for a free book. (

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nancyadair | Nov 9, 2023 |

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"At the height of the military dictatorship in South Korea, Insuk and Sungho are arranged to be married. The couple soon moves to San Jose, California, with an infant and Sungho's overbearing mother-in-law. Adrift in a new country, Insuk grieves the loss of her past and her divided homeland, finding herself drawn into an illicit relationship that sets into motion a dramatic saga and echoes for generations to come. From the Gwangju Massacre to the 1988 Olympics, flashbacks to Korean repatriation after Japanese surrender, and the Sewol ferry accident, E. J. Koh's exquisitely drawn portraits and symphonic testimony from guards, prisoners, perpetrators, and liberators spans continents and four generations of two Korean families forever changed by fateful past decisions made in love and war. Extraordinarily beautiful and deeply moving, The Liberators is an elegantly wrought family saga of memory, trauma, and empathy, and a stunning testament to the consequences and fortunes of inheritance"--

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