Stingray Paperback / softback
by Kim Joo-Young, Louis Vinciguerra
Part of the Library of Korean Literature series
Paperback / softback
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Hailed by critics, "Stingray" has been described by its author as "a critical biography of my loving mother." With his father having abandoned his family for another woman, Se-young and his mother are forced to subsist on their own in the harsh environment of a small Korean farming village in the 1950s.
Determined to wait for her husband's return, Se-young's mother hangs a dried stingray on the kitchen doorjamb; to her, it's a reminder of the fact that she still has a husband, and that she must behave as a married woman would, despite all.
Also, she claims, when the family is reunited, the fish will be their first, celebratory meal together.
But when a beggar girl, Sam-rae, sneaks into their house during a blizzard, the first thing she does is eat the stingray, and what follows is a struggle, at once sentimental and ideological, for the soul of the household.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:124 pages
- Publisher:Dalkey Archive Press
- Publication Date:02/01/2014
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- ISBN:9781564789594
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:124 pages
- Publisher:Dalkey Archive Press
- Publication Date:02/01/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9781564789594
