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02522aam a2200385 i 4500 001 DF8075AABCB511EDBE0894C944ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230307010117 008 220531t20232023nyu 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1954118198 020 $a 9781954118195 040 $d SILO 050 4 $a PS3556.E4778 $b S58 2023 082 04 $a 813/.54 $2 23 100 1 $a Fenkl, Heinz Insu, $d 1960- $e author. 245 10 $a Skull water / $c Heinz Insu Fenkl. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Spiegel & Grau, $c [2023] 300 $a 372 pages ; $c 24 cm. 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Racially mixed people $z Korea (South) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Folklore $z Korea $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Traditional medicine $z Korea (South) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Vietnam War, 1961-1975 $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Bildungsromans. $2 lcgft. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft. 941 $a 7 952 $l JSPB572 $d 20240323012738.0 952 $l VXPE964 $d 20230823010730.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20230708011346.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20230603010747.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20230404010935.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20230404010416.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20230307010622.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DF8075AABCB511EDBE0894C944ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search