One night in June 1950, nine-year-old Jong-ah's rooster crows for no apparent reason. In her horror, she discovers the next morning that her mother has served up the bird as breakfast soup, for in Korea, a rooster crowing at night is a bad omen....

The Northern Wind depicts turbulent South Korea in the mid-1960's, a time when her troops were ¿ghting in Vietnam and North Korean in¿ltrators were terrorizing their southern neighbors with killing and kidnapping. While doing her laundry at a ...