I went to see my father : a novel / Kyung-Sook Shin ; translated by Anton Hur.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sin, Kyŏng-suk, author.

Contributor:

Hur, Anton, translator.

Language:

English

Korean

Subjects (All):

Korea (South)--Fiction.

Korea (South).

Novelists--Fiction.

Novelists.

Fathers and daughters--Fiction.

Fathers and daughters.

Family secrets--Fiction.

Family secrets.

Self-realization in women--Fiction.

Self-realization in women.

Genre:

Domestic fiction.

Korean fiction -- Translations into English.

Physical Description:

283 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Weidenfield and Nicolson, 2023.

Summary:

"Two years after losing her daughter in a tragic accident, Hon finally returns to her home in the countryside to take care of her father. At first, her father only appears withdrawn and fragile, an aging man, awkward but kind around his own daughter. Then, after stumbling upon a chest of letters, Hon discovers the truth of her father's past and reconstructs her own family history. Consumed with her own grief, Hon had been blind to her father's vulnerability and her family's fragility. Unraveling secret after secret and thanks to conversations with loving family and friends, Hon grows closer to her father, who proves to be more complex than she ever gave him credit for. After living through one of the most tumultuous times in Korean history, her father's life was once vibrant and ambitious, but spiraled during the postwar years. Now, after years of emotional isolation, Hon learns the whole truth, from her father's affair and involvement in a religious sect, to the dynamic lives of her own siblings, to her family's financial hardships."--Publisher.

Notes:

Translated from Korean.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1399611712

9781399611718

1399611720

9781399611725

OCLC:

1342622956

Publisher Number:

99994027325