- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
This quote appears when Hyeonseo arrives at her father’s cousins’ house in Shenyang, China, after she defects across the Yalu River. This passage underscores the importance of family within the book, and within Korean culture as a whole. Uncle Jung-gil and Aunt Sang-hee may live in China, but they are North Korean, and they defected to China during the Korean War, which was long before Hyeonseo was born. Defectors don’t go back to North Korea—if they do, they are punished—and Hyeonseo has obviously never been out of North Korea.
Thus, Uncle Jung-gil and Aunt Sang-hee might as well be strangers…