Kyung-Sook Shin: I Went to See My Father

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Cover: 9781399611732 | I Went to See My Father | Kyung-Sook Shin | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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Beschreibung

Soon after losing her own daughter in a tragic accident, Hon returns to her childhood home in the Korean countryside after many years away. Her father, a cattle farmer, is elderly and requires her care. He is withdrawn, kind but awkward around his own daughter.

As time passes however, Hon realises that her father is far more complex than she ever realised. The discovery of a chest of letters and conversations with his family and friends help Hon piece together the tumultuous story of his life. She learns of her father's experiences during the Korean War and the violence of the 19th April Revolution; of a love affair and involvement in a religious sect; of his sacrifice and heroism and of the phantoms that haunt him. As she unravels secret after secret, Hon grows closer to her father, realising that his lifelong kindness belies a past wrought in both private and national trauma.

More than just the portrait of one man, I Went to See My Father opens a window onto humankind, family, loss and war. It asks us to look at the ones we love, uncover the secrets they keep, and finally see who they really are. Flawlessly rendered by award-winning translator Anton Hur, Kyung-Sook Shin has crafted a novel both affectionate and epic, joyous and lasting.

Über den Autor

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'Inaperçu 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.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Genre:	Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	283
Inhalt:	288 S.
ISBN-13:	9781399611732
ISBN-10:	1399611739
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Shin, Kyung-Sook
Übersetzung:	Hur, Anton
Hersteller:	Orion Publishing Group Weidenfeld and Nicholson
Maße:	197 x 127 x 24 mm
Von/Mit:	Kyung-Sook Shin
Erscheinungsdatum:	14.03.2024
Gewicht:	0,256 kg

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