{"product_id":"mirror-nation-9781950268931","title":"Mirror Nation","description":"\u003cb\u003eElegiac and haunting, \u003ci\u003eMirror Nation\u003c\/i\u003e by Don Mee Choi completes the KOR-US trilogy, along with \u003ci\u003eHardly War\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2016) and the National Book Award-winning \u003ci\u003eDMZ Colony\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2020).\u003c\/b\u003eMuch like Proust's madeleine, a spinning Mercedez Benz ring outside Choi's Berlin window prompts a memory of her father on the Glienicker Bridge between Berlin and Potsdam, which in turn becomes catalyst for delving into the violent colonial and neocolonial contemporary history of South Korea, with particular attention to the horrors of the Gwangju Uprising of May 1980. Here, photographs, news footage, and cultural artifacts comingle with a poetry of grief that is both personal and collective. Inspired by W. G. Sebald and Walter Benjamin as well as Choi's DAAD Artists residency in Berlin, \u003ci\u003eMirror Nation\u003c\/i\u003e is a sorrowful reflection on the ways in which a place can hold a \"magnetic field of memory,\" proving that history doesn't merely repeat itself; history is ever present, chiming the hours in a chorus against empire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wave Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/02\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781950268931\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.60w x 1.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/19\/2024\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Don Mee Choi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43733095448757,"sku":"9781950268931","price":21.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_821e3eb8-850a-4f79-8d8f-d5cadda5aeb0.jpg?v=1710258499","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/mirror-nation-9781950268931","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}