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Madame Choi and the monsters / art by Sheree Domingo ; text by Patrick Spät ; translator: Michael Waaler.
Van Pelt Library PN6757.S62 M3313 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spät, Patrick, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Madame Choi und die monnster. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Ch'oe, Ŭn-hŭi, 1930-2018--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Ch'oe, Ŭn-hŭi.
- Sin, Sang-ok, 1926-2006--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Sin, Sang-ok.
- Kim, Chŏng-il, 1942-2011--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Kim, Chŏng-il.
- Motion pictures--Production and direction--Korea (North)--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Motion pictures.
- Kidnapping victims--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Kidnapping victims.
- Mythology, Korean--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Mythology, Korean.
- Korea (North)--History--1948-1994--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Korea (North).
- Genre:
- Graphic novels.
- Historical comics.
- Physical Description:
- 175 pages : chiefly colour illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- English edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London : SelfMadeHero, 2024.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the German.
- Summary:
- Kidnapped by North Korean secret agents, at the orders of the country's future leader Kim Jong-il, the South Korean film star Choi Eun-hee finds herself having to give the performance of her life. Held against her will for five years, a bird in a gilded cage, Madame Choi is joined by her ex-husband, the film director Shin Sang-ok, and all is then revealed: their joint abduction has been orchestrated by the movie-mad heir-appearent in a bizarre bid to revitalize the North Korean film industry. Under constant sureillance, the reunited couple is coerced into make a series of big-budget films, including a North Korean version of Godzilla -- based on the legend of Bulgasari, a monster of insatiable appetite -- while themesleves plotting to escape the clutches of their monstrous dictator with a set of covert tape recordings of their own. Astonishingly, this is a true story, and the creators intersperse their tale of two Koreas with a resonant retelling of the fairytale that Madame Choi and her husband were forced to film.
- Notes:
- Originally published in German under the title Madame Choi und die monster © Edition Moderne 2022.
- Includes chronology.
- ISBN:
- 9781914224225
- 1914224221
- OCLC:
- 1463705520
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