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Who ate up all the shinga? : an autobiographical novel / Park Wan-suh ; translated by Yu Young-nan, Stephen J. Epstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pak, Wan-sŏ, 1931-2011, author.
- Series:
- Weatherhead books on Asia.
- Weatherhead Books on Asia
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pak, Wan-sŏ, 1931-2011.
- Pak, Wan-sŏ.
- Authors--Biography.
- Authors.
- Korea--Social conditions--1910-1945.
- Korea.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Park Wan-suh is a best-selling and award-winning writer whose work has been widely translated and published throughout the world. Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is an extraordinary account of her experiences growing up during the Japanese occupation of Korea and the Korean War, a time of great oppression, deprivation, and social and political instability.Park Wan-suh was born in 1931 in a small village near Kaesong, a protected hamlet of no more than twenty families. Park was raised believing that ""no matter how many hills and brooks you crossed, the whole world was Korea and everyone in it was
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction; 1. Days in the Wild; 2. Seoul, So Far Away; 3. Beyond the Gates; 4. Friendless Child; 5. The Triangle-Yard House; 6. Grandmother and Grandfather; 7. Mother and Brother; 8. Spring in My Hometown; 9. The Hurled Nameplate; 10. Groping in the Dark; 11. The Eve Before the Storm; 12. Epiphany
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780231520362
- 0231520360
- OCLC:
- 826476129
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