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The Kinship of Secrets by Eugenia Kim
5.0

Book : The Kinship of Secrets
Author : Eugenia Kim
Pages : 284
Genre : Fiction.
Published : November 2018
Publisher : Bloomsbury India
The Kinship of Secrets by Eugenia Kim is a beautifully stitched tale of Miran,raised in the United States in the warmth of her parents love and her sister Inja who survives in the war torn South Korea.
The book is a heartwrenching tale by Kim who gives you a taste of raw human emotions in the purest of forms.
Her mother wrapped the packages with the bags, tape and twine, using Miran's finger to tie the knot.
Embattled Inja and her Uncle's family lives their life amidst all the turmoil with their only glimmer of hope resting in the letters they receive from the U.S.
The author does a great job in potraying through her words the drastic contrast between the two places along with the parallel growth of the two sisters by the letters written back and forth.
My life grows cluttered with absent buttons, missing keys to anchovy tins, broken zippers, mothballs ane crumbling soap bars.But she is always in my heart.
Inja always wondering what was it that made her parents leave her in this turmoil, and only travel with their other daughter Miran to U.S, is devasted when she gets to know that she has only a mere 10 days to spend with the only family she has ever known.
Will Inja leave Korea to be with her parents whom she had only known through letters? Will she ever be able to cope with what lays ahead of her in the foreign land?
Reciprocating the feeling of separation and hope with Inja this book is a must read for everyone.
Definitely one of the few books that I am sure will be re-reading.
Book : The Kinship of Secrets
Author : Eugenia Kim
Pages : 284
Genre : Fiction.
Published : November 2018
Publisher : Bloomsbury India
The Kinship of Secrets by Eugenia Kim is a beautifully stitched tale of Miran,raised in the United States in the warmth of her parents love and her sister Inja who survives in the war torn South Korea.
The book is a heartwrenching tale by Kim who gives you a taste of raw human emotions in the purest of forms.
Her mother wrapped the packages with the bags, tape and twine, using Miran's finger to tie the knot.
Embattled Inja and her Uncle's family lives their life amidst all the turmoil with their only glimmer of hope resting in the letters they receive from the U.S.
The author does a great job in potraying through her words the drastic contrast between the two places along with the parallel growth of the two sisters by the letters written back and forth.
My life grows cluttered with absent buttons, missing keys to anchovy tins, broken zippers, mothballs ane crumbling soap bars.But she is always in my heart.
Inja always wondering what was it that made her parents leave her in this turmoil, and only travel with their other daughter Miran to U.S, is devasted when she gets to know that she has only a mere 10 days to spend with the only family she has ever known.
Will Inja leave Korea to be with her parents whom she had only known through letters? Will she ever be able to cope with what lays ahead of her in the foreign land?
Reciprocating the feeling of separation and hope with Inja this book is a must read for everyone.
Definitely one of the few books that I am sure will be re-reading.