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A Country Without Uncles

A Novel of Survival in A Post-Second Korean War
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Half a decade into a nuclear winter that was expected to end five summers ago, a 16-year-old Korean boy is doing his best to survive and keep his family alive on the southern half of the peninsula. Over the course of the year, he and his uncle will serve as scouts for their family compound and meet 21 other groups of post-war survivors who will test the boy's own sense of values and what it means to be alive in the first place. Treating its teenaged audience with the respect they deserve while on their own journey with these questions, A Country Without Uncles takes an unflinching look at what is means to be a boy on the edge of manhood in a world without room for error. When the struggle to not become a dead man is a challenge, what does being a good man even mean?

Half a decade into a nuclear winter that was expected to end five summers ago, a 16-year-old Korean boy is doing his best to survive and keep his family alive on the southern half of the peninsula. Over the course of the year, he and his uncle will serve as scouts for their family compound and meet 21 other groups of post-war survivors who will test the boy's own sense of values and what it means to be alive in the first place. Treating its teenaged audience with the respect they deserve while on their own journey with these questions, A Country Without Uncles takes an unflinching look at what is means to be a boy on the edge of manhood in a world without room for error. When the struggle to not become a dead man is a challenge, what does being a good man even mean?

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VerlagThe Quick and the Dead
EinbandKartonierter Einband (Kt)
Erscheinungsjahr2026
Seitenangabe278 S.
AusgabekennzeichenEnglisch
MasseH22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.6 cm 456 g
AutorBassette, Jamin

Über den Autor Jamin Bassette

Dr. Bassette (not, "save your life," kind of doctor, but "reads a lot and knows trivia about the ancient spice trade" kind of doctor) lives in Seoul, the Republic of Korea, with his wife Mihye, son Jay, sister-in-law Eunhye, and nephew Seogyun. He currently serves as a Korean Government Official and Global Studies Professor (hence all of the weird references throughout the book. Sorry about that). A former military Noncommissioned Officer (the under-paid kind of officer), Bassette has lived in 14 US states and five different countries, which created a great interest in learning about and studying other cultures and people. He is an International Relations Master's and Doctoral graduate of Korea University (a school so famous, they named two countries after it). He grew up with the classic writings of C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton, Frank Peretti, and Madeleine L'Engle. None of whom wrote anything even close to his book in terms of style, tone, or ineptitude. He sincerely hopes that they do not judge him too harshly and will still allow him into the Kingdom of Heaven.

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