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Harris is Emeritus Professor of English at Illinois State University

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The House with a Sunken Courtyard Scandinavia Harris is Emeritus Professor ofAn occasionally terrifying and always vivid portrayal of what it was like to live as a refugee immediately after the end of the Korean War. An occasionally terrifying and always vivid portrayal of what it was like to live as a refugee immediately after the end of the Korean War. This novel is based on the authors own experience in his early teens in Daegu, in 1954, and depicts six families that survive the hard times together in the same house,