Last Days of the Morning Calm / Tina Jimin Walton.

By: Material type: TextTextSingapore : Marshall Cavendish International, c2019Description: 213 p. ; 22 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 813 W2311l
Summary: Korea, 1895: court intrigue and foreign powers threaten the centuries-old ""hermit kingdom"". In a prominent manor, Ji-nah, the sheltered fourteen-year-old ward, and Han, the seventeen-year-old servant, are left in the tight grip of Tutor Lim when Master Yi travels to Peking. The tutor strips Ji-nah's privileged life and crushes Han's future. When the two young people uncover the tutor's broader conspiracy with the Japanese to overthrow Queen Min, they determine to save the queen, whose fate seems tied to their master. Their plans go awry when the tutor sells them off as slaves: Ji-nah to the
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Books Books Library, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Window on Korea Fiction 813 W2311l (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2019 01 Available WOK000943
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Korea, 1895: court intrigue and foreign powers threaten the centuries-old ""hermit kingdom"". In a prominent manor, Ji-nah, the sheltered fourteen-year-old ward, and Han, the seventeen-year-old servant, are left in the tight grip of Tutor Lim when Master Yi travels to Peking. The tutor strips Ji-nah's privileged life and crushes Han's future. When the two young people uncover the tutor's broader conspiracy with the Japanese to overthrow Queen Min, they determine to save the queen, whose fate seems tied to their master. Their plans go awry when the tutor sells them off as slaves: Ji-nah to the