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...novels like Gorky Park and Havana Bay, Smith has made a specialty of looking the wrong way through the gunsight, describing America's historical enemies with a vivid sense of place that complicates what we read in history books. Here Smith's 1940s Tokyo is so gloriously and tenderly realized, ringing with modan jazu (modern jazz) and the tinkling of geisha headdresses, that the reader understands the hold it has on Harry and the reason his loyalties are so tragically divided. His dilemma is the real mystery in December 6. After all, every story, like every war, has two sides...
...critics scrambling for words like luminous. Yet her charms have never been employed for big-budget Hollywood movies, despite an illustrious resume that includes 1998's Hilary and Jackie (for which she received a second Oscar nomination) and a juicy bit in last year's Gosford Park as a rough-edged servant who drops her knickers for the master of the house...
...nearly three decades of military dictatorship, when the once-feared Secret Police was headquartered on its slopes. Last year the compound returned to its roots and was transformed into a writers' retreat. Even more recently, the ugly government-owned apartment complexes were demolished to make room for a botanical park with manicured gardens...
...President Kim Dae Jung set up a presidential commission to investigate suspicious deaths under Korea's authoritarian regimes. Like similar panels set up in post-apartheid South Africa and post-junta Argentina, the commission was supposed to set the record straight and heal the wounds of the past. From Park Chung Hee's coup in 1961 until the transition to democracy in the early 1990s, South Korea's authoritarian governments regularly violated human rights in the name of protecting South Korea from the threat of the communist North. Hundreds of students, church leaders and others who opposed military rule died...
...novels like Gorky Park and Havana Bay, Smith has made a specialty of looking the wrong way through the gunsight, describing America's historical enemies with a vivid sense of place that complicates what we read in history books. Here Smith's 1940s Tokyo is so gloriously and tenderly realized, ringing with modan jazu (modern jazz) and the tinkling of geisha headdresses, that the reader understands the hold it has on Harry and the reason his loyalties are so tragically divided. His dilemma is the real mystery in December 6. After all, every story, like every war, has two sides...