Endless Blue Sky: A Novel by Lee Hyoseok

Set in 1940s colonial Koreaand Japanese-occupied Manchuria Endless Blue Sky tells the love story between Korean writer Ilma and Russian dancer Nadia. The novel is both a thrilling melodrama set in glamorous locations that would shortly be tragically ravaged by war and a bold piece of writing espousing new ideas on love marriage and race. Reading this tale of cosmopolitan socialites finding their way in a new world of luxury hotels racetracks and cabarets one gets a sense of the enthusiasm for the future that some felt in Korea at the time.Honford Stars edition of Endless Blue Sky the first in English includes an introduction and explanatory notes by translator Steven D. Capener.