Who Ate Up All the Shinga?: An Autobiographical Novel
Park Wan-suh; Translated by Yu Young-nan and Stephen Epstein
August, 2009
Cloth, 264 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14898-6
$24.50
/ £17.00
Introduction
1. Days in the Wild
2. Seoul, So Far Away
3. Beyond the Gates
4. Friendless Child
5. The Triangle-Yard House
6. Grandmother and Grandfather
7. Mother and Brother
8. Spring in My Hometown
9. The Hurled Nameplate
10. Groping in the Dark
11. The Eve Before the Storm
12. Epiphany
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About the Author
Park Wan-suh broke into Korea's literary scene in the 1970s and in 1981 received the prestigious Yi Sang award for her novel Mother's Stake. Her prolific career includes more than 150 short stories and novellas and close to twenty novels, many of which have topped best-seller lists and have been adapted for the screen. Her works in translation include My Very Last Possession and The Naked Tree.
Yu Young-nan is a freelance translator living in Seoul. She has translated five Korean novels into English, including Park Wan-suh's The Naked Tree and Yom Sang-seop's Three Generations. Yu was awarded the Daesan Literature Prize for her translation of Yi In-hwa's Everlasting Empire.
Stephen J. Epstein is the director of the Asian Studies Programme at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. His research focuses on contemporary Korean literature and society, and he is currently working on a book exploring Korean national identity in relation to globalization. He has also published several translations of Korean and Indonesian fiction.
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