In a drab North Korean city, a seventh daughter is born to a couple longing for a son. Abandoned hours after her birth, she is eventually rescued by her grandmother. The old woman names the child Bari, after a legend telling of a forsaken princess who undertakes a quest for an elixir that will bring peace to the souls of the dead.
An original translation of a new novel by one of South Korea's greatest novelists, transfiguring an age old legend. A young North Korean woman abandoned as a baby escapes via the hold of a cargo ship and lands in London.