The Evening Hero by Marie Myung-Ok Lee epub Download

January 16, 2023 admin admin Fiction

Table of Contents

The Evening Hero by Marie Myung-Ok Lee eBook read online or download for free. “The Evening Hero ” is an impressive book that is now available in various format including Kindle, ePub, and PDF. If you need this book in any specific format, you can request us.

The Evening Hero Book Review

“The Evening Hero ” is a good book that you can read online or download to read it later. Before starting the reading or downloading, here is the summary of the book that you can read. Dr. Yungman Kwak is in the twilight of his life. Every day for the last fifty years, he has brushed his teeth, slipped on his shoes, and headed to Horse Breath’s General Hospital, where, as an obstetrician, he treats the women and babies of the small rural Minnesota town he chose to call home. This was the life he longed for. The so-called American dream. He immigrated from Korea after the Korean War, forced to leave his family, ancestors, village, and all that he knew behind. But his life is built on a lie. And one day, a letter arrives that threatens to expose it.

Brief Summary The Evening Hero by Marie Myung-Ok Lee

But the accumulation of carefully crafted scenes, history, observations, character building really coalesced for me at the end. This is an intelligent, partly historical novel dealing with the effects of war (in this case the Korean War that split the two countries). There are some graphic descriptions of the role the Americans played in their time there. But no one gets off easy. This is a brave look at what men of all nations can do to one another, both violently in physical ways and subtly in everyday language and behavior.What transforms this work and lifts it above the generic war/immigrant story is the story of family. The author doesn’t spare the hero she creates. He is flawed. But “steady.” And that steadiness colors all that he does and eventually brings him circling home, in the Korean way, honoring his ancestors and realizing how his life radiates out from them and creates its own beautiful pattern. This book will stay with me for a long time.