In the Tunnel Lee Julie
A fourteen-year-old boy is sent to the front lines of the Korean War in this searing story of survival, loss, and hope.Fourteen-year-old Myung-gi knows war is coming: War between North and South…
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A fourteen-year-old boy is sent to the front lines of the Korean War in this searing story of survival, loss, and hope.Fourteen-year-old Myung-gi knows war is coming: War between North and South Korea. Life in communist North Korea has become more and more unbearable--no freedom of speech, no freedom of movement, no freedom of association--and his family makes the long and deadly escape to South Korea.Not all of them arrive, however, and Myung-gi--bookish, sensitive, the son of a teacher--feels hatred growing in him like a poisoned seed. Surviving as a refugee in Busan is hard, so hard. There's no dignity, no hope, no food: he carries water for pennies, watches his sister wear cardboard sandals, watches his mother cut and sell her hair for a single silver coin.He is too young to be a soldier, but the South Korean army takes him anyway, and sends him north to fight