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The Red Queen Author: Barbara Halliwell, on a grant at Oxford, receives an unexpected package-a centuries-old memoir by a Korean crown princess. An appropriate gift indeed for her impending trip to Seoul, but Barbara doesn't know who sent it. On the plane, she avidly reads the memoir, a story of great intrigue as well as tragedy. The Crown Princess Hyegyong recounts ... more »
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4 member(s) found this review helpful.
One of the best books from Margaret Drabble. Opens with the fascinating life of a Korean crowd princess and her unhappy and unhinged husband with court politics and intrigue from centuries past. Then moves to modern day acedemic lecture circuits and the everyday drama of different lives without a change in pace and still keeps a theme intact throughout. "Clever" doesn't even come close to describing it. A marvel of narrative technique and a really enjoyable story as well.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Loved the first half, POV the Crown Princess... but after only a few pages of the second half I quit. The third-person POV is very awkward... the idea, I think, is that it is the Princess's ghost observing. Didn't work for me. :(
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