Publisher: Columbia University Press (A)
264 pages
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About This Book
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 was Korean." But then the
tendrils of the Japanese occupation, which had already worked their way
through much of Korean society before her birth, began to encroach on
Park's idyll, complicating her day-to-day life.
With acerbic wit and brilliant insight, Park describes the characters
and events that came to shape her young life, portraying the pervasive
ways in which collaboration, assimilation, and resistance intertwined
within the Korean social fabric before the outbreak of war. Most
absorbing is Park's portrait of her mother, a sharp and resourceful
widow who both resisted and conformed to stricture, becoming an
enigmatic role model for her struggling daughter. Balancing period
detail with universal themes, Park weaves a captivating tale that
charms, moves, and wholly engrosses.
About the Author
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 Very Last Possession and The Naked Tree.
Yu Young-nan is a freelance translator living in Seoul. She has
translated five Korean novels into English, including Park Wan-suh's The
Naked Tree and Yom Sang-seop's Three Generations. Yu was awarded the
Daesan Literature Prize for her translation of Yi In-hwa's Everlasting
Empire.
Stephen J. Epstein is the director of the Asian Studies Programme at the
Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. His research focuses
on contemporary Korean literature and society, and he is currently
working on a book exploring Korean national identity in relation to
globalization. He has also published several translations of Korean and
Indonesian fiction.
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