Embassy Wife Finger Paint International Booker–nominated virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong

International Booker–nominated virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong is back with another powerful story — an epic tale that threads together a century of Korean history

and the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it

Duke Leto's beautiful concubie

selflessly nurturing others with their hands and their hearts

Professor of Marketing

Embassy Wife Finger Paint International Booker–nominated virtuoso Hwang Sok-yongBook Title: Embassy Wife ISBN: 9781250849328 By Author(s): CROUCH KATIE By Publisher: HOLTZBRINCK US Format: PB Persephone Wilder, a displaced genius posing as the wife of an American diplomat in Namibia, takes her job as a representative of her country seriously and comes up with an intricate set of rules to survive a range of problems: how to dress in hundred degree weather without showing too much skin, how not to look drunk at embassy functions,