Endless Blue Sky

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In 1940s Manchuria, a Korean writer named Ilma and a Russian dancer named Nadia fall in love against the backdrop of colonial occupation, wartime glamour, and a cosmopolitan world about to be destroyed. Their romance unfolds in luxury hotels and racetracks, among expatriates and socialites who sense that the life they're living cannot last. Hyoseok Lee wrote this novel in the final years of Japanese colonial rule — a bold, romantic work that defied the era's literary constraints by insisting on love, pleasure, and individual freedom as subjects worth writing about. A love story that glitters with the desperate beauty of people determined to live fully in a world that is about to close around them.