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Chesil

崔実

Born 1985 · South Korea

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Books on prize lists

  • In English

    Akutagawa 2016 (first half) · Candidate

    The Color of the Sky Is the Shape of the Heart

    ジニのパズル · Jini no pazuru

    Chesil · 31 when first published

    Novel · 158 pages · Coming of age, Migration, Politics

    AI-generated summary:Facing expulsion from her Oregon high school, Jini, born in Japan to a Korean family, tells Stephanie, whom she meets through her homestay, about Tokyo five years before, when she enrolled at a pro-North Korean school without speaking Korean.