| Good Family Contributor(s): Hajin, Seo (Author), Hwang, Ally (Translator), Smith, Amy C. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1628971185 ISBN-13: 9781628971187 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: 895.735 |
| LCCN: 2015030557 |
| Series: Library of Korean Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.60 lbs) 350 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection of eight stories--cynical and sympathetic by turns--represents the author's attempt to document and understand the conflicts, resentments, hatreds, and anxieties of contemporary family life. The title story depicts a mother's busy day playing numerous roles--ashamed, fearless, or humble--depending on which member of her family she's tending to. In "The Privacy of My Father," a daughter tracks her father to Hong Kong in order to spy on what she thinks is an illicit affair. All in all, says Seo Hajin, family means deception--but these masks aren't so easily removed. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hajin, Seo: - Seo Hajin was born in 1961 in Youngcheon, North Kyungsang Province. She studied Korean literature at Kyunghee University in Seoul, Korea, and is currently a assistant professor of Korean Literature at the same school.Hwang, Ally: - Ally Hwang is a translator of Korean literature. She has published a short story translation of Seo Hajin, two volumes in the Korean Classic Stories series, and "Bunnyeo" and "Harbin" by Yi Hyo-seok in the E-Book 20th Century Korean Literature.Smith, Amy C.: - Amy C. Smith is an Associate Professor of English at Lamar University (TSUS). With Ally Hwang she hse translated two collections of Seo Hajin's short stories. She is currently completing a book, to be published with Northwestern University Press, called Virginia Woolf's Politics of Myth. |