In the U.S., the Korean War has been called ¡°the forgotten war¡± ¡ª a sideshow in geopolitics and American novels such as Richard Condon¡¯s ¡°The Manchurian Candidate¡± or, more recently, Philip Roth¡¯s ¡°Indignation.¡± The conflict, which lasted from 1950 to 1953, never had an official peace treaty and saw no territorial gains for either the North or South. Not surprisingly, ¡°Who won the Korean War?¡± is a frequent search on the internet.

The Kinship of Secrets, by Eugenia Kim.
304 pages