Stingray
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Library of Korean Literature
ISBN-10
1564789594
ISBN-13
9781564789594
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Imprint
Dalkey Archive Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 2nd, 2014
Print length
124 Pages
Weight
200 grams
Dimensions
21.50 x 13.80 x 1.00 cms
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Fiction in translation
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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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