num_pages: 336
description: Nora Okja Keller, the acclaimed author of Comfort Woman , tells the shocking story of a group of young people abandoned after the Korean War. At the center of the tale are two teenage girls—Hyun Jin and Sookie, a teenage prostitute kept by an American soldier—who form a makeshift family with Lobetto, a lost boy who scrapes together a living running errands and pimping for neighborhood girls. Both horrifying and moving, Fox Girl at once reveals another layer of war's human detritus and the fierce love between a mother and daughter.
language: English
title: Fox Girl
titlecomplete: Fox Girl
genres: Historical, Asian Literature, Literary Fiction, Asia, 21st Century, Dark, War, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Race
ratings_count: 756
places: South Korea
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist
publisher: Penguin Books