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These characters (and the author) feel that conventional ways of interpreting the world have become destructive—conventional language
at others comical
and love for the people and place that will be destroyed
Cosmin Manolache [Romania] Three Hundred Cups
often sordid
The Republic of Užupis United States and Canada These characters (and the author)In this unique and melancholic work author Halji, while appearing to shun Korea, is in fact examining the yearnings and dislocation of his contemporary Koreans, and posits the idea that freedom and nationhood themselves may be just a dream. Uupis (meaning on the other side of the river) is, in reality, a neighborhood in Vilnius, Lithuanias capital city, which took the peculiar step of declaring itself an independent republic in 1997. In this novel,