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Who Ate Up All the Shinga?: An Autobiographical Novel
Wan-Suh Park
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Description for Who Ate Up All the Shinga?: An Autobiographical Novel
Hardback. Translator(s): Young-nan, Yu; Epstein, Stephen. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 3JJG; 3JJH; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 386.
Park Wan-suh is a best-selling and award-winning writer whose work has been widely translated and published throughout the world. Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is an extraordinary account of her experiences growing up during the Japanese occupation of Korea and the Korean War, a time of great oppression, deprivation, and social and political instability. Park Wan-suh was born in 1931 in a small village near Kaesong, a protected hamlet of no more than twenty families. Park was raised believing that "no matter how many hills and brooks you crossed, the whole world was Korea and everyone in it ... Read more
Park Wan-suh is a best-selling and award-winning writer whose work has been widely translated and published throughout the world. Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is an extraordinary account of her experiences growing up during the Japanese occupation of Korea and the Korean War, a time of great oppression, deprivation, and social and political instability. Park Wan-suh was born in 1931 in a small village near Kaesong, a protected hamlet of no more than twenty families. Park was raised believing that "no matter how many hills and brooks you crossed, the whole world was Korea and everyone in it ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Series
Weatherhead Books on Asia
Condition
New
Weight
394g
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231148986
SKU
V9780231148986
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About Wan-Suh Park
Park Wan-suh broke into Korea's literary scene in the 1970s and in 1981 received the prestigious Yi Sang award for her novel Mother's Stake. Her prolific career includes more than 150 short stories and novellas and close to twenty novels, many of which have topped best-seller lists and have been adapted for the screen. Her works in translation include My ... Read more
Reviews for Who Ate Up All the Shinga?: An Autobiographical Novel
Lyrical in its descriptions of village life, this gripping book is written with a confessional chattiness that contrasts with the hardships it describes. Financial Times Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is essential reading.
Joanna K. Elfving-Hwang List: Books from Korea Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is clearly a volume that should be added to the growing staple ... Read more
Joanna K. Elfving-Hwang List: Books from Korea Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is clearly a volume that should be added to the growing staple ... Read more