To Swim Across the World

In a novel based on the true story of the authors’ parents, two young Koreans–Sei-Young Shin, a young man from a poor family in the rural South, and Heisook Pang, the daughter of a prominent minister in the North–encounter one another during the 1941 Japanese occupation of Korea in a meeting that transforms both their lives forever. Reader’s Guide included. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.