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by Young-Sook Kang
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Availability:In StockContributor:Young-Sook Kang, Kim Boram (Translator), Janet Hong (Translator)Publish date:2024-06-11Pages:270
Language:EnglishPublisher:Open LetterISBN-13:9781960385086ISBN-10:1960385089UPC:9781960385086Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, World Literature, WomenBook Topic:KoreaSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.64 inchesWeight:0.8113Product ID:SCMY0YPFFA
Rina is a defector from a country that might be North Korea, traversing an "empty and futile" landscape. Along the way, she is forced to work at a chemical plant, murders a few people, becomes a prostitute, runs a lucrative bar, and finds a solace in a motley family of wanderers all as disenfranchised as she. Brutal and unflinching, with elements of the mythic and grotesque interspersed with hard-edged realism, Rina is a pioneering work of Korean postmodernism.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Open LetterISBN-13:9781960385086ISBN-10:1960385089UPC:9781960385086Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, World Literature, WomenBook Topic:KoreaSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.64 inchesWeight:0.8113Product ID:SCMY0YPFFA
Kang Young-sook was born in Chuncheon, Gangwondo, and graduated from the Seoul Institute of the Arts. She attended the University of Iowa's International Writing Program in 2009, and has served as an advisory member of the Korea Dialogue Academy since 1990.

Kim Boram was born in Massachusetts. Her first translated work was Kim Yeon-su's short story "The Five Pleasures of Walking." She is currently working toward her PhD in English at UCLA.


Janet Hong is a writer and translator based in Vancouver, Canada. She received the 2018 TA First Translation Prize and the 2018 LTI Korea Translation Award for her translation of Han Yujoo's The Impossible Fairy Tale. She's a two-time winner of the Harvey Award for Best International Book for her translations of Keum Suk Gendry-Kim's Grass and Yeong-shin Ma's Moms. Other recent translations include Ha Seong-nan's Bluebeard's First Wife (selected as Publishers Weekly's 10 Best Books of 2020) and Kwon Yeo-sun's Lemon. She is currently the Korean prose mentor for ALTA's Emerging Translator Mentorship Program.


Publisher: Open Letter

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Young-Sook Kang, Kim Boram (Translator), Janet Hong (Translator)

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Young-Sook Kang

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