ISBN: 9780393064841    Publisher: WW Norton & Co Year of publishing: 2007     Format:  Hardback No of Pages: 128        

"The Guide" is a former South Korean dissident and tour guide who speaks a fluid fabricated language; "the Historian" interviews the Guide and annotates the commentaries. Cathy Park Hong's passionate and artful poem sequence weaves an ultimately revitalizing dialogue on shared experience in a globalized world, using language as subversion and disguise.
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