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003			OCoLC
005			20230216151628.0
008			220531t20232023nyu e 000 1 eng d
040			_aYDX _beng _erda _cYDX _dBDX _dY$5 _dJCW _dIK2 _dJVK _dIMT _dRNL _dVP@ _dNFG
020			_a9781954118195 _q(hardcover)
020			_a1954118198 _q(hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)1322047340
092			_aFENKL, _bHEINZ
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aFenkl, Heinz Insu, _d1960- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aSkull water / _cHeinz Insu Fenkl.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bSpiegel & Grau, _c[2023]
264		4	_c©2023.
300			_a372 pages ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"Growing up outside a US military base in South Korea in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, Insu--the son of a Korean mother and a German father enlisted in the US Army--spends his days with his "half and half" friends skipping school, selling scavenged Western goods on the black market, watching Hollywood movies, and testing the boundaries between childhood and adulthood. When he hears a legend that water collected in a human skull will cure any sickness, he vows to find some in order to heal his ailing Big Uncle, a geomancer who has been exiled by the family to a mountain cave to die. Insu's quest takes him and his friends on a sprawling, wild journey into some of South Korea's darkest corners, opening them up to a world beyond their grasp. Meanwhile, Big Uncle has embraced his solitude and fate, and as he recalls his wartime experiences of betrayal and lost love, he attempts to teach his nephew that life is not limited to what we can see--or think we know. Largely autobiographical and deeply rooted in time and place, Skull Water is the story of a boy coming into his own--and the ways the past continues to haunt the present in a country struggling to confront its troubled history as it moves into modernity"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aRacially mixed people _zKorea (South) _vFiction.
650		0	_aFolklore _zKorea _vFiction.
650		0	_aTraditional medicine _zKorea (South) _vFiction.
650		0	_aVietnam War, 1961-1975 _vFiction. _951801
651		0	_aKorea (South) _y20th century _vFiction.
650		0	_aUncles _vFiction. _98514
655		7	_aBildungsromans. _2lcgft _921488
655		7	_aHistorical fiction. _2lcgft _9683
994			_aC0 _bNFG
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