Junghyo Ahn
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In a mountain village in Korea, 1950, the memory of the Japanese occupation has just begun to fade when the farmers hear that the World Army, led by the great American General "Megado", has landed at Inchon. The liberators set up a special encampment called Texas Town, where local women receive them. The disdainful villagers call these women Yankee Wives. Among them is the hero's mother.
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Han Kiju is an executive in Seoul, a modern Korean intellectual who works in book publishing. But he has never fully come to grips with his memories of war-first the conflict that gripped his own country, and then his time in Vietnam.
When an old comrade-in-arms, a coward who crumpled in battle, begins to follow him, Kiju must finally deal with the ghosts of the past haunting his present, in this brutal, evocative tale of combat.