FROM THE 2 MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOTHER
On the Eve of Goodbye is an unforgettable novel from one of Korea's most loved authors, weaving together the lives of three artists to explore creativity and human connection. Set against key moments in history - the assassination of Park Chung Hee, Korean American immigration, a Korean artist's life in Germany, and the global pandemic - the novel unfolds in three parts.
In Time Under Seal, an older Korean American woman is sitting in her New Jersey home during Hurricane Sandy, her electricity and water cut off. She lights candles against the dark and recounts the events of her life in a letter to a younger Korean artist in New York. In What the Boat Carries, the River Does Not Know, this younger artist - now a writer - pens a letter to a dying friend, a poet and archaeologist. Finally, in On the Eve of Goodbye, eight years later, the younger artist finally writes back to the author of the first letter, connecting past and present in a poignant exploration of time, memory and the creative process.
TRANSLATED FROM KOREAN BY ANTON HUR
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Verlagsort
Verlagsgruppe
Produkt-Hinweis
Maße
Höhe: 222 mm
Breite: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-3996-2800-6 (9781399628006)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Kyung-Sook Shin is one of South Korea's most widely read and acclaimed novelists. She has been honored with the Manhae Grand Prize for Literature, the Dong-in Literature Prize, and the Yi Sang Literary Prize, Mark of Respect Award (2012), and Ho-Am Prize for an Art (2013) as well as France's Prix de l'Inapercu and Man Asian Literary Prize (2011). She is the author of many prior works of fiction in addition to PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOTHER, which has been published in 41 countries, and was on the New York Times bestselling list. Shin was a visiting scholar at Columbia University from 2010 to 2011. She currently lives in Seoul.
