Your Book Review: On the Marble Cliffs
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On the Marble Cliffs
Jung-a is both the first person narrator and almost exactly the same guy. He lives with his brother on the edge of a small town in a fairly rural area, overlooking a large body of water across which is a mountainous foreign country,. The brothers are highly educated in philosophy and classical literature but not equipped with much historical or sociological understanding of what is happening. Jung-a at least makes his protagonist more interested in botany than his own favourite field of entomology. But the plants and narrator studies are almost all native to the area where Jung-a lived when he wrote this.
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