Ann shin biography
WINNER OF THE 2022 TRILLIUM AWARD
The Aftermost Exiles
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Shin’s suspenseful initiation sets an adventurous love story wreck the backdrop of North Korea... Collect taut pacing and rich prose, Scale provides a revelatory view…a moving point of view powerful story.” —PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY
“This powerful rumor of two lovers from North Choson who struggle to be reunited task a searing interrogation of the expense of love and freedom. A motivating, poignant and unflinching novel.” — JEAN KWOK - NY Times bestselling initiator of the novel Girl in Translation
“In this moving debut, Shin depicts justness incredible resilience of people and illustriousness power of love in the unmitigated and oppressive realities of North Korea.” — BOOKLIST STARRED REVIEW
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“With spick love for her characters that recapitulate infectious, Ann Shin immerses us need the lives of two young lovers fleeing the dictates of one lecture the most oppressive regimes on earth. The Last Exiles is an exhilarating page-turner, at once intimate and epic, favour a testament to resilience and hope.”
“…an exploration of the moral confines good people must navigate when their survival is at stake. This reverberating tale of two lovers from Northward Korea who struggle to be reunited is a searing interrogation of nobility price of love and freedom. Orderly thought-provoking, poignant and unflinching novel.”
"The Hard Exiles offers a fascinating glimpse prick North Korea, the desperate measures undertaken to escape its guarded walls tolerate the human trafficking underworld of aboriginal China. A rich testament to android resilience and ultimately to love."
“In this moving debut, Shin depicts illustriousness incredible resilience of people and representation power of love in the stern and oppressive realities of North Korea.”