Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520268128ISBN-10:520268121UPC:9780520268128Book Category:Literary Collections, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:AsianSize:8.20 x 5.48 x 0.59 inchesWeight:0.5908Product ID:SCSV6E16PY
Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood
In this autobiography, Richard E. Kim paints seven vivid scenes from a boyhood and early adolescence in Korea at the height of the Japanese occupation during WWII, 1932 to 1945. Taking its title from the grim fact that the occupiers forced the Koreans to renounce their own names and adopt Japanese names instead, the book follows one Korean family through the Japanese occupation to the surrender...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520268128ISBN-10:520268121UPC:9780520268128Book Category:Literary Collections, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:AsianSize:8.20 x 5.48 x 0.59 inchesWeight:0.5908Product ID:SCSV6E16PY
Richard E. Kim (1932 - 2009) was a celebrated novelist, essayist, documentary filmmaker, and professor of literature at University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Syracuse University, San Diego State University, and at Seoul National University. He was founder and president of Trans-Lit Agency, a literary agency devoted to establishing international copyright for works being published in Korea. His...
Publisher: University of California Press
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Forthieth Anniv Edition
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