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69%OFFYi Kwang-Su - The Soil - 9781564789112 - 9781564789112
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The Soil

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Description for The Soil Paperback. Translator(s): Hodges, Horace Jeffery; Hwang, Sun-ae. Num Pages: 420 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 37. Weight in Grams: 690.
A major, never before translated novel by the author of "Muj?ng / The Heartless"--often called the first modern Korean novel--"The Soil" tells the story of an idealist dedicating his life to helping the inhabitants of the rural community in which he was raised. Striving to influence the poor farmers of the time to improve their lots, become self-reliant, and thus indirectly change the reality of colonial life on the Korean peninsula, "The Soil" was vitally important to the social movements of the time, echoing the effects and reception of such English-language novels as Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle."

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564789112
SKU
9781564789112
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Ref
99-1

About Yi Kwang-Su
Yi Kwang-su was born in 1892 during the twilight years of the Korean monarchy, which ended in 1910 with the anexation of Korea by Japan. Recognized as one of modern Korea's best novelists, especially for his 1917 novel The Heartless, he died in disfavor in 1950, accused of collaboration with the Japanese. Jang Jung-il was born in 1960. Self-educated, Jang's ... Read more

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