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The Liberators

The Liberators

The Liberators
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The Liberators Hardback - 2023

by E. J. Koh

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Tin House Books. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp.
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  • Title The Liberators
  • Author E. J. Koh
  • Binding Hardback
  • Condition Used - Very good
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Tin House Books
  • Publication date 2023-11-07
  • Bookseller's Inventory # Q20A-01081
  • ISBN 9781959030157 / 1959030159
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.6 x 5.7 x 1.1 in (21.84 x 14.48 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: East Asian
    • Topical: Family
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2023025051
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.6

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From the publisher

Winner of the 2024 NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award

Finalist for the 2024 Washington State Book Award and the 2025 PNBA Book Award

"Spare, beautiful and richly layered, The Liberators is dazzling."
―Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage

"A piercing, patient debut by one of our finest chroniclers of American han. You won't know what hit you until the final, perfect image."
―Ed Park, author of Same Bed Different Dreams

Daejeon, South Korea. 1980. At twenty-four, Insuk falls in love with her college classmate, Sungho, and with her father's blessing, they marry. But then, as the military dictatorship, martial law, and nationwide protests bring the country precariously to the edge, Insuk's father disappears.

In the wake of his disappearance, Insuk flees to California with Sungho, their son Henry, and Sungho's overbearing mother. Adrift in a new country, Insuk grieves the loss of her past and divided homeland, only to find herself drawn into an illicit affair that sets into motion dramatic events that will echo for generations to come.

Spanning two continents and four generations, E. J. Koh's debut novel exquisitely captures two Korean families forever changed by fateful 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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Citations

  • Booklist, 10/01/2023, Page 34
  • Foreword, 10/27/2023, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 01/01/0001, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 11/01/2023, Page 55
  • Publishers Weekly, 09/18/2023, Page 0

About the author

E. J. Koh is the author of The Magical Language of Others, which won a Washington State Book Award, Pacific Northwest Book Award, and Association for Asian American Studies Book Award, and was longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award. Koh is also the author of the poetry collection A Lesser Love, a Pleiades Press Editors Prize for Poetry winner. Koh's work has appeared in AGNI, the Atlantic, Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Poetry, Slate, World Literature Today, and elsewhere. Koh earned her MFA at Columbia University and her PhD at the University of Washington, and has received National Endowment for the Arts and MacDowell fellowships. She lives in Seattle, Washington.

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