Sooni's Uncle
Author: Hyun, Ki-young
Publisher: Changbi
316 pages | 223*152mm
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| >>>This book is written in Korean. |
About This Book
A vivid description of the scars of past history.
The book contains 10 different stories mainly portraying misfortunes of
Korean modern history, especially, misfortunes which otherwise wouldn’t
be revealed and remembered. The title story, "Sooni’s Uncle", deals with
the historical event, the Jeju 4.3 Uprising, and shows how innocent
people were sacrificed in this social upheaval. • This collection of
stories holds much value as a great literary work in several ways. The
author tries to maintain his moderate literary style and make vivid
description of the natural landscape. He also shows an effective
technique of contrasting the past and the present and of presenting
interchanges between humans and nature.
•Included in high school literature text book
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