Kyŏng-suk Sin
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How friendship, European literature, and a charismatic professor defy war, oppression, and the absurd. Set in 1980s South Korea amid the tremors of political revolution, I’ll Be Right There follows Jung Yoon, a highly literate, twenty-something woman, as she recounts her tragic personal history as well as those of her three intimate college friends. When Yoon receives a distressing phone call from her ex-boyfriend after eight years of separation,...
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"In the wake of a personal tragedy, a novelist goes back home in the Korean countryside to take care of her gentle father and learns, through the testimonies of his loving family and friends, how his lifelong kindness belies a past wrought in both private and national trauma"--Provided by publisher.
3) Violets
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"San is twenty-two and alone when she happens upon a job at a flower shop in Seoul’s bustling city center. Haunted by childhood rejection, she stumbles through life—painfully vulnerable, stifled, and unsure. She barely registers to others, especially by the ruthless standards of 1990s South Korea. Over the course of one hazy, volatile summer, San meets a curious cast of characters: the nonspeaking shop owner, a brash coworker, kind farmers, and...
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"The story of the novel begins when a mother from the countryside goes missing at a subway station in Seoul. The process of recovering memories by tracing the traces of the mother who disappeared is unfolding while maintaining the tension like a mystery novel. The mother, who was always by her side and seemed to give infinite love, disappears and comes to her family anew and becomes more precious. Each chapter unfolds through the eyes of children,...