Tendrils of Life - Kindle Fiction

Tendrils of Life 
by Owen Choi 

Acute food shortages and lawlessness plague communist-occupied Seoul  at the start of the Korean War in 1950. Jimin, a sixteen-year-old  boy, aches to return to the safety of his old home on Ockdo (Jade  Island), a remote island he'd left five years earlier. But only his  father, who is absent from home, knows the way.

His adversary, a man who's been plotting to wipe out Jimin's family  and steal their island, brings a tragedy and tries to eliminate him, forcing him to traverse the war-torn country on foot with his seven-year-old sister to find his father. But the war sweeps across  the country multiple times and hinders them from meeting up with  their father.

Back in Seoul, with Chinese troops (who invade the country to  prop up the communists) bearing down on them, Jimin is forced to join  the army, leaving his sister alone, hungry, and homeless in the cold,  bomb-devastated city. During a long march, Jimin succumbs to hunger  and fatigue and is left to die at a roadside house. He is rescued by  a girl he loves, but the war, his adversary, and personal misfortunes  continue to thwart his goal of returning to his island with his girl, father, and sister. He miraculously survives a massacre and an  epidemic of relapsing fever and undergoes other gut-wrenching trials. He finally stumbles on his father, who is very ill with tuberculosis, and he must overcome formidable obstacles to return to Ockdo.

With action and suspense, Tendrils of Life is a rich and intriguing upmarket fiction, interwoven with gripping character-oriented narratives and full of visual detail. It's a story of love and hope, greed and revenge, and the quest for survival in the turmoil of war - a depiction of  resilience of the human spirit.

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