In these two stories, "Granny Wild Goose" and "The Root's Tale," award-winning South Korean writer Kim Soom presents portraits of complex women who have emerged wiser from life’s brutality. One is a former comfort woman, one is a modern woman in a failing relationship, yet neither flinches away from their lives. The sensitive translation maintains Kim’s beautiful imagery and musical prose.
In these two stories, "Granny Wild Goose" and "The Root's Tale," award-winning South Korean writer Kim Soom presents portraits of complex women who have emerged wiser from life’s brutality. One is a former comfort woman, one is a modern woman in a failing relationship, yet neither flinches away from their lives. The sensitive translation maintains Kim’s beautiful imagery and musical prose. Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
KIM SOOM is a novelist based in Seoul, South Korea. She has published numerous short stories and novels. Her works which have been translated and published in English include One Left, Divorce, and The Night Nobody Returns Home. JOON-LI KIM was born in South Korea and grew up in the American Midwest. She is a freelance writer and an editor of academic research papers, novels, and memoirs. DOO-SUN RYU is emeritus professor of English Literature at Seoul National University. He is the author of D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow and Women in Love: A Critical Study. ALEXIS DUDDEN is professor of history at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Japan's Colonization of Korea: Discourse and Power and Troubled Apologies Among Japan, Korea, and the United States.
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