Research Catalog

Title

Stingray / Kim Joo-young ; translated by Inrae You Vinciguerra and Louis Vinciguerra.

Author

Kim, Chu-yæong, 1939-

Publication

Champaign : Dalkey Archive Press, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Vinciguerra, Louis,
• You, Inrae,

Description

124 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Library of Korean literature ; 1

Uniform Title

• Hongŏ. English
• Library of Korean literature ; 1.

Alternative Title

Hongŏ.

Subject

• Families
• Families > Korea > Fiction
• Korea
• Koreanisch
• Roman

Genre/Form

• Domestic fiction
• Domestic fiction.
• Fiction

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain
• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9781564789594
• 1564789594

LCCN

^^2013027140

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library