Behind Five Willows - By June Hur

What if reading Pride and Prejudice could get you arrested?

In June Hur’s Behind Five Willows, fiction is forbidden, books are copied and circulated in secret, and the person who understands you best may be someone you’ve never actually met.

Described by the author as “Pride and Prejudice meets You’ve Got Mail in Joseon Dynasty Korea,” this book gave us familiar Lizzie-and-Darcy energy in a setting unlike anything we’ve encountered before. In this episode, we talk about the real history behind the story, where the book draws inspiration from Pride and Prejudice (and where it takes its own path), and how Yu Seojun became a Darcy-esque character worth rooting for.

Pride and Prejudice may be what made us pick up this book, but it isn’t why we kept reading.

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