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A Single Shard

A Single Shard

Author(s): Linda Sue Park

Location(s): South Korea

Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Era(s): Mid 12th Century

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Park (Seesaw Girl) molds a moving tribute to perseverance and creativity in this finely etched novel set in mid-to-late 12th century Korea. . . Readers will not soon forget these characters or their sacrifices.

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What a wonderful book. It is far more readable than I had imagined knowing only that it was set in twelfth-century Korea and that the main character is called Tree-ear. But it could be thought...

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