โ Elliott, Anna
๐ Fiction
๐
2011
๐ Anna Elliott
๐ English
โ 204 KB
โฆ LIBER โฆ
The Starlet and the Spy
โ Scribed by Ji-min Lee
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 345 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
A dazzling work of historical fiction about two women who seem the most unlikely to ever meet: Alice, a Korean war survivor and translator for the American forces in Seoul and Marilyn Monroe, who is visiting Korea on a four-day USO tour.
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...
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