Words of Farewell: Stories by Korean Women Writers (Women in Translation) - Softcover

Sok-Kyong Chi-Won & Chong-Hui

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0931188768 ISBN 13: 9780931188763

Publisher: Seal Press, 1993

Synopsis

we are the translators of this volume and wish to correct the title appearing to the right of the cover image: it should read "Words of Farewell: Stories by Korean Women Writers" followed by "translated by Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton"Thank you for your assistance with this.Sincerely,Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton

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Language Notes:

Text: English, Korean (translation)

From Publishers Weekly:

The seven works here, whose three authors make their U.S. debut, are interesting primarily for their illumination of contemporary South Korean mores. In Kim Chi-won's "A Certain Beginning," a Korean who moves to New York after her affluent husband divorces her enters into a contract marriage with a young Korean student who needs a green card to stay in America; their tentative encounters reveal not only their individual psychologies but Korean attitudes toward love and matrimony. In the title piece, by O Chong-hui, a woman takes her daughter and young grandson on a day trip to a cemetery to view the plots she has selected; in a parallel narrative, the ghostly presence of the daughter's fugitive husband supplies an unexpected tension. While Kim Chi-won and O Chong-hui both depict intense loneliness and pent-up emotions, Kang Sok-kyong's novella "A Room in the Woods," less compelling than the other entries, relies on external events to build drama; she chronicles a well-to-do Seoul family whose experiences do not seem particular to their culture--one daughter is on the verge of marrying while another drops out of college.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Seal Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0931188768
• ISBN 13: 9780931188763
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 294
• Illustrator: Bruce And Ju-Chan Fulton