Capitalists Must Starve: A Novel - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Seolyeon Park, Anton Hur (Translator)Publish date:10/7/2025Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:Tilted Axis PressISBN-13:9781917126212ISBN-10:1917126212UPC:9781917126212Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Literary, World LiteratureBook Topic:20th Century, KoreaSize:7.81 x 5.06 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.4806Product ID:SCAQVSCJTB
Capitalists Must Starve: A Novel
Winner of 2018 Hankyoreh Literature Award, this work is based directly on the life of Kang Juryong, a female worker who led a strike at the Pyongwon rubber factory in Pyongyang in 1931, climbing the roof of Eulmildae to protest working conditions.
In a Japan-occupied Korea, Kang Juryong leads a peripatetic life with her impoverished parents, moving around from Ganggye to Gando and Seoriwon. She...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Tilted Axis PressISBN-13:9781917126212ISBN-10:1917126212UPC:9781917126212Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Literary, World LiteratureBook Topic:20th Century, KoreaSize:7.81 x 5.06 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.4806Product ID:SCAQVSCJTB
Born in 1989, Park Seolyeon made her debut by winning the Silcheon Munhak New Writers Prize in 2015. She is the author of A Magical Girl Retires among other novels and short story collections. In 2018, she won the Hankyoreh Literature Prize for her novel Capitalists Must Starve. Her stories have been translated into Japanese, French, German, and English. She currently lives in Seoul.
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