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by Kim Joo-Young, Louis Vinciguerra
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Availability:In StockContributor:Kim Joo-Young, Louis Vinciguerra, Inrae You Vinciguerra (Translator)Series:Library of Korean Literature #1Publish date:2013-11-16Pages:124
Language:EnglishPublisher:Dalkey Archive PressISBN-13:9781564789594ISBN-10:1564789594UPC:9781564789594Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Family LifeSize:8.49 x 5.51 x 0.43 inchesWeight:0.4409Product ID:SC0CB8C6TV

Hailed by critics, "Stingray" has been described by its author as "a critical biography of my loving mother." With his father having abandoned his family for another woman, Se-young and his mother are forced to subsist on their own in the harsh environment of a small Korean farming village in the 1950s. Determined to wait for her husband's return, Se-young's mother hangs a dried stingray on the kitchen doorjamb; to her, it's a reminder of the fact that she still has a husband, and that she must behave as a married woman would, despite all. Also, she claims, when the family is reunited, the fish will be their first, celebratory meal together. But when a beggar girl, Sam-rae, sneaks into their house during a blizzard, the first thing she does is eat the stingray, and what follows is a struggle, at once sentimental and ideological, for the soul of the household.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Dalkey Archive PressISBN-13:9781564789594ISBN-10:1564789594UPC:9781564789594Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Family LifeSize:8.49 x 5.51 x 0.43 inchesWeight:0.4409Product ID:SC0CB8C6TV
Joo-Young, Kim: - Kim Joo-Young was born in 1939, and graduated from the Sorabol Art College majoring in creative writing, and made his literary debut with Resting Stage, which won the 1971 New Writer's Award. A leading and popular exponent of "documentary" fiction, set in meticulously researched historical periods, Kim has also served as the director of the Paradise Culture Foundation in Seoul since 2005.Vinciguerra, Louis: - Novelist, short-story writer, translator, playwright, and teacher, Jung Young-moon was born in Hamyang, South Korea, in 1965. He graduated from Seoul National University with a degree in psychology. He made his literary debut in 1996 when his novel A Man Who Barely Exists. He has also translated more than forty English books into Korean.Vinciguerra, Inrae You: - Kim Joo-Young was born in 1939, and graduated from the Sorabol Art College majoring in creative writing, and made his literary debut with Resting Stage, which won the 1971 New Writer's Award. A leading and popular exponent of "documentary" fiction, set in meticulously researched historical periods, Kim has also served as the director of the Paradise Culture Foundation in Seoul since 2005.

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press

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Kim Joo-Young, Louis Vinciguerra, Inrae You Vinciguerra (Translator)

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Kim Joo-Young, Louis Vinciguerra

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