Title: The Red Queen
Subtitle: a transcultural tragicomedy
First published: 2004
Description: "Barbara Halliwell, on a grant at Oxford, receives an unexpected package - a memoir by a Korean crown princess, written more than two hundred years ago. A highly appropriate gift for her impending trip to Seoul. But from whom?" "The story she avidly reads on the plane turns out to be one of great intrigue as well as tragedy. The Crown Princess Hyegyong recounts in extraordinary detail the ways of the Korean court and confesses the family dramas that left her childless and her husband dead by his own hand. Perhaps it is the loss of a child that resonates so deeply with Barbara...but she has little time to think of such things, she has just arrived in Korea." "She meets a certain Dr. Oo, and to her surprise and delight he offers to guide her to some of the haunts of the crown princess. As she explores the inner sanctums and the royal courts, Barbara begins to feel a strong affinity for everything related to the princess and her mysterious life." "After a brief, intense, and ill-fated love affair, she returns to London. Is she ensnared by the events of the past week, of the past two hundred years, or will she pick up her life where she left it?"--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Women scholars in fiction, Fiction, Loss (Psychology), Korea Seoul, England London, Channeling (Spiritualism), Kings and rulers, Literature, British in fiction, Queens in fiction, Queens, Women in fiction, British, Books and reading, Women scholars, Princesses, Princesses in fiction, History, Homes and haunts, Korea in fiction, Women, Fiction, general, Human evolution, Human behavior, Fiction, psychological, Korea, fiction
Places: Korea
People: Hyegyŏnggung Hong Ssi (1735-1815)
Time periods: 1637-1864, 18th century
LC classification: PR6054.R25 R43 2004