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Stingray
Kim Joo-Young
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Description for Stingray
Paperback. Translator(s): Vinciguerra, Inrae You. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 10. Weight in Grams: 200.
Hailed by critics, "Stingray" has been described by its author as "a critical biography of my loving mother." With his father having abandoned his family for another woman, Se-young and his mother are forced to subsist on their own in the harsh environment of a small Korean farming village in the 1950s. Determined to wait for her husband's return, Se-young's mother hangs a dried stingray on the kitchen doorjamb; to her, it's a reminder of the fact that she still has a husband, and that she must behave as a married woman would, despite all. Also, she claims, when the ... Read more
Hailed by critics, "Stingray" has been described by its author as "a critical biography of my loving mother." With his father having abandoned his family for another woman, Se-young and his mother are forced to subsist on their own in the harsh environment of a small Korean farming village in the 1950s. Determined to wait for her husband's return, Se-young's mother hangs a dried stingray on the kitchen doorjamb; to her, it's a reminder of the fact that she still has a husband, and that she must behave as a married woman would, despite all. Also, she claims, when the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
124
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564789594
SKU
9781564789594
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Ref
99-3
About Kim Joo-Young
Kim Joo-Young was born in 1939, and graduated from the Sorabol Art College majoring in creative writing, and made his literary debut with Resting Stage, which won the 1971 New Writer's Award. A leading and popular exponent of "documentary" fiction, set in meticulously researched historical periods, Kim has also served as the director of the Paradise Culture Foundation in Seoul ... Read more
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