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Cry Korea Cry

Name: Cry Korea Cry
Author: Ty Pak
ISBN: 9780966745801

by Ty Pak

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Overview

A novel about a mixed-blood Korean War orphan who names himself Moo Moo, literally "Nothing Nothing." Convinced that he is the unwanted byproduct of a hungary Korean whore and a sex-starved American soldier, he discovers instead that his ancestry binds him closely to the history of modern Korea, her loss of independence to Japan, liberation, division, war and dispersion. Amidst dispair and sorrow over the tragedies that have devastated his entire family, and anger and contempt for the inane fractricidal hostility still continuing between north and south, Moo Moo rejects identification with either side and chooses to live in the US, making films dedicated to the validation of many lives wasted and lost, "the fate of a displaced people wandering the globe in search of home and sustenance."

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Editorials

Amersia Journal

"Ty Pak's prime merit.....is the unflinching confrontation with the voids and wounds, both psychic and physical, that drive and inhibit a generation of Koreans born to division, war and a homeland that is not whole either"

Charene Luke

Cry Korea Cry is meant to entertain and allow a bit of escape as much as to educate you in korean history. The invincible spirit and feats of wonder found in James Bond-type storylines are felt in the whirlwind manner in which you are transported from one scene to another.
—The Honolulu Advertiser

Peter Ong

...[A]n excellent read overall....The book is best when we see the world through Moo Moo's fleetingly innocent eyes.....[A] novel of astonishing vision and force... —A. Magazine

Peter Ong

This novel of astonishing vision and force succeeds in conveying how human lives become expendable in the sinister politics of war.

Peter Ong

...[A]n excellent read overall....The book is best when we see the world through Moo Moo's fleetingly innocent eyes.....[A] novel of astonishing vision and force...
— A. Magazine