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JEFF TALARIGO won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Foundation Award for his widely acclaimed first novel, The Pearl Diver. After living in Japan for almost fourteen years, he, with his wife and son, moved back to the United States in 2006. He was awarded a fellowship at the New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. The Ginseng Hunter is his second novel.
Remarkable. . . . A story of quiet humanity in the midst of overwhelming inhumanity. -- The Christian Science Monitor A psychologically affecting portrait of desire and guilt. . . . A scathing reminder of the perils that communism continues to wreak in pockets across the world. -- Chicago Sun-Times This brave book, written in starkly vivid prose, is timely on several levels. . . . We seldom get a window into North Korean lives. The view is painful, but well worth it. -- The Free Lance-Star Evanescent.... [Shows] the beauty and power of the ginseng root, the respect of the hunter for the thing he hunts. -- Los Angeles Times
