Lonesome You

by Thomas J. A. Lehman, Elizabeth Haejin Yoon (Translator)

Overview

Well before her death in 2011, Park Wan-Suh had established herself as a canonical figure in Korean literature. Her work—often based upon her own personal experiences, and showing keen insight into divisive social issues from the Korean partition to the position of women in Korean society—has touched readers for over forty years. In this collection, meditations upon life in old age come to the fore—at its best, accompanied by great beauty and compassion; at its worst by a cynicism that nonetheless turns a bitter smile upon the changing world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781564789440
Publisher:	Dalkey Archive Press
Publication date:	09/26/2013
Series:	Healing Music #03 , #9
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
File size:	409 KB

About the Author

Park Wan-Suh (1931–2011) was one of the most beloved and recognized names in Korean literature; her works were best-sellers, and have been published widely around the world. She was born on the outskirts of Seoul, and enrolled in the prestigious Seoul National University, but her education came to an abrupt end when the Korean War broke out. She married in her early twenties and spent nearly the next two decades raising her five children. In 1970 at age thirty-nine, when not many women would dare dream about a new career, Park debuted as an author when her first novel The Naked Tree.

Elizabeth Haejin Yoon was born in Korea and immigrated to the US at age eleven. She attended Cornell University before working in various nonprofit organizations in the US, Korea, and Japan. Lonesome You is her first full-length translation of Korean fiction into English.