![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I hesitated for a while, wondering if I, a Korean-Canadian ‘diasporan’, even had the right to write about Korea, and afraid that no one would be interested in a mystery set in a non-western country. I was fascinated by everything and was gripped by a terrifying desperation to write a Korean historical mystery. Then everything changed for me in 2015 when I, out of sheer curiosity, read further into Korean history – and fell madly in love with it. In short, I grew up knowing almost nothing about Korean history, except for the brief stories my parents shared with me, and the snippets I learned about whenever I managed to stay awake during Korean history class (back when I studied in South Korea). I was born in South Korea, but I was raised in Canada, and spent all of my teenage years obsessing over British history, Jane Austen and BBC dramas. THE SILENCE OF BONES is, in part, my love letter to Korean history. ![]()
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