Behind Five Willows

Behind Five Willows

Author: June Hur Listening Length: 8h 35m
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From the New York Times-bestselling author of A Crane Among Wolves comes a warm and romantic homage to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice set in historical Korea, about a reader and a writer who secretly fight against government book banning and find themselves irresistibly drawn together. As the dutiful second-eldest ...

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Alone with her in the forest, his mind had turned to the consistency of gruel.

He couldn’t think. Words escaped him. And when he finally did, he had spoken with burning clumsiness.

The mere recollection of his response to her, when she had thanked him for his assistance, left him mortified.

He had, of all things, quoted the Analects, as though he were a dull, gray-haired schoolmaster.