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    <![CDATA[To Swim Across the World: A Novel]]>
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    <![CDATA[Korea, 1941. The Japanese occupy the country, and two young Koreans grow up in very different worlds. For Sei-Young Shin, a young man born into a poor family in the rural south, it is a time of oppression. The Japanese have issued strict prohibitions against the Korean language, religion, and food. For Heisook Pang, the daughter of a prosperous family from the north, life is easier. But the onset of World War II changes everything: Heisooks privileges are suddenly stripped away, and she is forced to make a daring escape, across the border into the south, where an encounter with Sei-Young changes their lives forever. Based on the real-life stories of the authors parents, To Swim Across the World is a wonderful love story and an intimate vision of a countrys terrible, recent past.]]>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The writing wasn't impressive, but the narrative was compelling. I don't know that much about Korean history and this was an interesting story about two families during Japanese occupation just before the border between North and South Korea became the DMZ. The authors are sisters writing a story ba...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68829020">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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