A Good Family
Published on 4. February 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
350 pages
978-1-62897-118-7 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of eight stories-cynical and sympathetic by turns-represents the author's attempt to document and understand the conflicts, resentments, hatreds, and anxieties of contemporary family life. The title story depicts a mother's busy day playing numerous roles-ashamed, fearless, or humble-depending on which member of her family she's tending to. In "The Privacy of My Father," a daughter tracks her father to Hong Kong in order to spy on what she thinks is an illicit affair. All in all, says Seo Hajin, family means deception-but these masks aren't so easily removed.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Normal, IL
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 142 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
292 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62897-118-7 (9781628971187)
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Seo Hajin was born in 1961 in Youngcheon, North Kyungsang Province. She studied Korean literature at Kyunghee University in Seoul, Korea, and is currently a assistant professor of Korean Literature at the same school.
Ally Hwang is a translator of Korean literature. She has published a short story translation of Seo Hajin, two volumes in the Korean Classic Stories series, and "Bunnyeo" and "Harbin" by Yi Hyo-seok in the E-Book 20th Century Korean Literature.
Amy C. Smith is an Associate Professor of English at Lamar University (TSUS). With Ally Hwang she has translated two collections of Seo Hajin's short stories. She is currently completing a book, to be published with Northwestern University Press, called Virginia Woolf's Politics of Myth.
Ally Hwang is a translator of Korean literature. She has published a short story translation of Seo Hajin, two volumes in the Korean Classic Stories series, and "Bunnyeo" and "Harbin" by Yi Hyo-seok in the E-Book 20th Century Korean Literature.
Amy C. Smith is an Associate Professor of English at Lamar University (TSUS). With Ally Hwang she has translated two collections of Seo Hajin's short stories. She is currently completing a book, to be published with Northwestern University Press, called Virginia Woolf's Politics of Myth.