About the book: 2021 / What is it like to be a stranger among your own? How to survive when the problems and pain of persecuted people are superimposed on the adversity of a difficult time for the entire country? The family of the book’s heroine, who left Korea for Russia, was deported from the Far East to a godforsaken village on the outskirts of Soviet Uzbekistan. Emani managed to get out of the “Korean ghetto”, get an education, raise children, get back on her feet in the turbulent 90s, start life from scratch at fifty in Belgium, and create AKE – the Association of Koreans in Europe. What is the secret of this strong and cheerful woman? The answer will be given by the novel “Emani’s Memoirs,” aimed at a wide range of readers..