Chinatown
Publisher: Asia
Pub. Date: Jun-25 , 2012
128 page /115 * 188 mm
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About This Book
Published as part of the Hollym Corporation Publishers' series of short stories
by well-known authors, "Chinatown" presents the dark and gloomy atmosphere of
postwar Korean society in the early 1950s through a 9-year old girl's
experiences. Her family of poor refugees seeks shelter in the Chinatown streets
in Incheon, a concentration of shantytowns where prostitutes for the U.S
soldiers as well as Chinese and Korean refugees live together. The life of the
main character shows how the extreme poverty drives a person to change one's
character to survive in a fierce life condition. Exposed to the savage and ugly
environment of the world, she steals flour to eat and coal to sell. Instead of
singing children's songs, the girl enjoys pop songs for adults and aspires after
the lives of prostitutes patronized by foreign soldiers. The author Oh Jung-hee
is regarded as an exceptional writer for her exploration of existential aspects
of life (whereas most authors at the time focused on subject and
historical-based themes). Throughout her works she has expressed concepts of the
emptiness of life and has contemplated on what it means to be human.
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