It takes the average reader 1 hour and 50 minutes to read Code of Sharon by J. S. Lee
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Code of Sharon centers on the mission by Sosu Kim, an agent of South Korea's intelligence agency, to stop North Korea's transfer of deadly nuclear materials to Middle Eastern terrorists, as tensions mount in the Middle East and the Korean peninsula. The setting is the former Soviet Republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in Central Asia. & ; The sub-text is Kim's search for his own Korean self-identity in the context of the modern civilizational conflict between the West and the Rest. Born in South Korea but educated in the USA, Kim strives to understand where he belongs as he undertakes a mission to Central Asia, home to an ancient melting pot of cultures. There, he reunites with Tanya, his old Russian girlfriend from his prior work experience in Kazakhstan. As Kim, a Harvard Ph.D., follows the trails leading to the North Koreans in Central Asia, he comes upon a mysterious note left on the body of a dead Russian, an ex-researcher in a WMD laboratory in Kazakhstan. Efforts to decipher the note eventually take Kim to stunning discoveries about Tanya's identity, secret histories of the world and a sense of his own self-identity. & ; In part Umberto Eco, Dan Brown, Tom Clancy, Jorge Luis Borges, Saul Bellow, Kurt Vonnegut, Ernest Hemingway, Arabian Nights and Pulp Fiction, this is a quest novel in the style of an intellectual fantasy mystery. It contains doses of travelogue, poetry, irreverent humor, melodramatic love, parodies of Western popular culture, as well as learned digressions on art, history, politics, religion and much else.
Code of Sharon by J. S. Lee is 110 pages long, and a total of 27,500 words.
This makes it 37% the length of the average book. It also has 34% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 30 minutes to read Code of Sharon aloud.
Code of Sharon is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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