Marilyn and Me. Ji-min Lee
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Copyright © Ji-min Lee 2019
Translation copyright © Chi-Young Kim 2019
Cover design by Jo Walker
Cover art adapted from design by Joanne O’Neil. Photographs © Bettmann/Getty Images (Marilyn Monroe), MorphartCreation/Shutterstock (flower), ShutterMagician/EyeEm/Getty Images (woman)
Ji-min Lee asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
This book is published with the support of the Literature Translation Insitute of Korea (LTI Korea)
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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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Source ISBN: 9780008322359
Ebook Edition © June 2019 ISBN: 9780008322335
Version: 2020-05-19
To my son and daughter
Contents
1 Cover
2 Title Page
3 Copyright
4 Dedication
5 Contents
6 Letter
7 A Day in the Life of Miss Alice of Seoul
8 Colonial-Style Romance at the Bando Hotel
9 Welcome to Seoul, Marilyn Monroe!
10 The Other Man
11 The Fateful Triangle
12 The Return of the First Ghost
13 A Living Ghost
14 Seoul Crybaby
15 Goodbye, Blondes!
16 Author’s Note
17 References
18 About the Author
19 About the Publisher
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