Sam has settled for a job in a paper factory and thinks he has put his dreams and the terrors of Burma behind him.
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Ellen knows how fragile their marriage is. Joe, who lurks at the top of the stairs, overhearing their quarrels, is anxiously between them.
The novel opens with a gift from Sam to Joe: Soon after, Ellen takes Joe to piano lessons. She wants him to sing in the choir, to learn tap dancing. But her ambitions for Joe bump up against her natural obedience, her abiding sense of duty, and her patient endurance of a poor, hard life. And that's all the story of the novel: The other characters - Ellen's creepy half-brother whom she meets for the first time; Joe's friends; Sam's old comrades; the sly little girl who does handstands against the wall without tucking her skirt into her knickers; - weave into a story about growing up, holding secrets, discovering furtive desire.
Throughout, Bragg is tenderly understated - his characters are not articulate people, but reserved and stoical, and he lets them speak for themselves, or not speak. He catches brilliantly the volatility of emotions - how happiness can curdle, anger flare, guilt build into terror. He understands - remembers - how a child's life is a minefield of fears, secrets, panics.
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And he is very loving about ordinary people, making visible and quietly heroic the invisible and the scorned. He ends the book on a muted double-note - Ellen finds out where her lost father is buried; Joe decides to stay on at school and is kissed by a girl. Um Hyo-sup as Hong Moo-suk [6] A prosecutor who is described as excellent at fabricating stories in trials. He handled the trial of Seo Jae-hyuk 4 years ago and has since moved up the ranks quickly, becoming Lee In-ah's section chief and misusing his power to cover the crimes of Il-Ho company.
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He is also the rival of Park Dong-ho. Kim Jin-woo as Kang Suk-gyu A judge with a sense of justice. The death of Jung-ah's father fueled him to work even harder to ensure that criminals are given well-deserving sentences.
Often seen reprimanding In-ah for not working within the frame of a prosecutor but understands and supports her. She was asked to sing at Nam Gyu-man party and was raped there. Nam Gyu-man murdered her brutally after she scratched his face with a broken glass.
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Maeng Sang-hoon as Jung-ah's father [6] Upon finding a clue that suggests Seo Jae-hyuk is not the culprit, he informs his attorney, Hong Moo-suk, not knowing that Moo-suk sides with Il-Ho. He was subsequently found dead and is presumed to have committed suicide because of his daughter's death.
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