01581cam a2200325 i 4500 643881010 TxGeo 20230203120000.0 230117s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781954118195 hbk. 1954118198 hbk. (OCoLC)1322047340 TxGeo rda Fenkl, Heinz Insu, author. Skull water / Heinz Insu Fenkl. First edition. New York, NY : Spiegel and Grau, [2023] 372 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Growing up outside a US military base in South Korea in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, Insu--the son of a Korean mother and a German father enlisted in the US Army--spends his days with his "half and half" friends skipping school, selling scavenged Western goods on the black market, watching Hollywood movies, and testing the boundaries between childhood and adulthood. When he hears a legend that water collected in a human skull will cure any sickness, he vows to find some in order to heal his ailing Big Uncle, a geomancer who has been exiled by the family to a mountain cave to die."-- From publisher's description. 20230214. Legends Korea Fiction. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Fiction. Korea (South) Fiction. Historical fiction. Bildungsromans. QS5