Coin for a Dream
And Other Korean Tales
by Mae Adams
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Pub Date Jun 14 2022 | Archive Date Jun 01 2023
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Description
Author Mae Adams' latest book is a fascinating assembly of intriguing tales full of colorful characters such as monks and shamans, kings and queens, ginseng boys, grateful ghosts and magpies, and a host of others to entertain you and experience the wonders of ancient rites and cultures of Korea. While reading it, you will hear lepers sing for their supper, watch goblins wrestle, feel a tiger's sorrow, taste snake soup, and touch a Taoist Immortal God's hand. It will take your mind on an emotional roller coaster ride from grief to joy, tears to laughter.
Adams enchants readers with conversational stories with unexpected twists and turns from her perspective as a young girl, collecting tidbits and folklore from her grandparents and her life story. The myths, legends, and folk tales also have great importance and give us moral lessons we can apply in our times.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Mesmerizing!
Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2022
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Coin for a Dream: And Other Korean Tales by Mae Adams is an excellent glimpse of Korean heritage through the eyes of Mae's childhood experiences. The book is filled with wonderful landscapes and folktales. The collection of stories are not just about cultural myths of traditions, but they represent pearls of wisdom handed down through generations. The experience is of various emotions making it as easier to cry just as easy to laugh. I feel honored and fortunate to have read these stories. The author has out done herself with excellent storytelling. Though unique with surprising elements in the stories, I felt drawn in completely with Mae's journey. This is a must read for entertaining, engaging but mostly a personal experience through Korean culture.
Available Editions
| ISBN | 000BOB481KQ5P |
| PRICE | $2.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 275 |
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Featured Reviews
Reviewer 992166
This book has such a delightful, heartwarming and poignant collection of Korean tales. The traditional tales have their own magic and innumerable emotions. I really enjoyed them. A girl was abandoned by her mother because she didn’t want another daughter. She was left in the care of grandparents and grew up listening to their enchanting tales infused with fantasy, mythology, rituals, morals, religion and social status in society.
Dig deep into the Korean culture, history of ancient times, rituals and traditions. Have you heard tales of goblin, monsters, Shaman, Buddhist, fortune teller and the wrath of god of ancestors? I am sure you haven’t heard such a delightful tales before. I loved each of them. But I just can’t forget these tales; about marriage, avoiding evil fate, Goblin, Confucian tradition, Shaman, Ginko tree and Coin for a dream. I absolutely adored them. It’s poignant and lyrical. I adored the author’s writing. The tales will take you back to your childhood. Also very well presentation of Korean culture, history, traditions and struggles they have to face due to invasion.
Thank you Netgalley, Author and Publisher.
Nicki M, Reviewer
Coin for a Dream: And Other Korean Tales is a lovely collection of Korean folktales. Many I already knew (from Korean bilingual books for language learners), but it was nice to see them freshly presented here and I enjoyed how the narrative led us from one to the next. Worth a look for anyone interested in Korean folklore and culture, this book is delightful, easy reading. It gets 4.5 stars from me.
Marta R, Reviewer
Fans of Korean culture, k-historical dramas will love this book, in the centre you have a family, in witch someone is telling a tale for a child or because is bedtime or because it relates to what the adults are teaching, or even relate personally to events that happen to this family.
It is a really nice and great dive into Korean culture, we even have stories of ghost that curse families and people, the way Asians see the world is completely different how me as a Portuguese see the world and I think it is completely worth of our time to read this stories and dive into this universe where the paranormal and normal life dwell hand to hand. I really recommend this book to every fan of Asian culture.
Thank you NetGalley and BooksGoSocial, Citadel, for the free ARC and this is my honest opinion.
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