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Eugenia Kim is the daughter of Korean immigrant parents who came to America shortly after the Pacific War. She has published short stories and essays in journals and anthologies, including Echoes Upon Echoes: New Korean American Writings, and is an MFA graduate of Bennington College. She teaches fiction in the low-residency MFA Creative Writing Program at Fairfield University. The Calligrapher’s Daughter is her first novel.


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Riding a crest of enormous praise, this debut novel by an American man about a North Korean citizen is a worthy achievement, and one I couldn't put down for two days straight. Despite twists of plot that in fiction often seem too coincidental, the reader's sympathy and alignment to the protagonist is so rich and deeply felt that these happenstances feel believable, and are forgivable. The book read more »
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Average rating: 3.69 · 1,370 ratings · 398 reviews · 1 distinct work
The Calligrapher's Daughter
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 1,370 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions
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Five pages and a fruit bowl (Literature & Fiction)
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Jazz and Keyboards (Nonfiction)
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The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson Translations of Beauty by Mia Yun Long for This World by Sonya Chung The Poet by Munyol Yi Once the Shore by Paul Yoon
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The Orphan Master's Son
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The Voyage of the Narwhal
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The Ninth Wife by Amy Stolls
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My Innocent Uncle by Man-shik Ch'ae
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An Appointment with My Brother by Munyol Yi
An Appointment with My Brother
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