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02588aam a2200421Ki 4500 001 433DD868E66C11E99CD11AFC96128E48 003 SILO 005 20191004010026 007 tb 008 190912t20192019nyu db 000 1 eng d 020 $a 006294388X 020 $a 9780062943880 035 $a (OCoLC)1119390365 040 $a CLE $b eng $e rda $c CLE $d IOU $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h kor 043 $a a-ko--- 100 1 $a Lee, Ji-min, $e author. 245 14 $a The starlet and the spy : $b a novel / $c Ji-min Lee ; translated from the Korean by Chi-Young Kim. 250 $a First Harperluxe edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Harperluxe, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, $c [2019] 300 $a 199 pages (large type) ; $c 23 cm 340 $n Large print $2 rda 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 500 $a "First published as Marilyn and me in the United Kingdom in 2019 by Fourth Estate"--Title page verso. 520 $a "February 1954. Although the Korean War armistice was signed a year ago, most citizens of Seoul still battle to return to some semblance of normalcy. Conditions are dismal. Children beg for food, and orphanages are teeming. Alice J. Kim, a Korean translator and typist for the American forces still sanctioned in the city, yearns for the life she used to live before her country was torn apart. Then Alice's boss makes an announcement--the American movie star Marilyn Monroe will be visiting Korea on a four-day USO tour, and Alice has been chosen as her translator. Though intrigued, Alice has few expectations of the job--what could she and a beautiful actress at the peak of her fame possibly have to talk about? Yet the Marilyn she meets, while just as dazzling and sensual as Alice expected, is also surprisingly approachable. As Marilyn's visit unfolds, Alice is forced into a reckoning with her own painful past....a beautiful portrayal of unexpected kinship between two very different women, and of the surprising connections that can change, or even save, a life."--Amazon.com. 600 10 $a Monroe, Marilyn, $d 1926-1962 $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Actresses $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Women translators $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Female friendship $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Seoul (Korea) $x History $y 20th century $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Kim, Chi-Young, $e translator. 941 $a 2 945 $a lpt 952 $l WHPE115 $d 20200731011317.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20191004010125.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=433DD868E66C11E99CD11AFC96128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search