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Rina : a novel / Kang Young-sook ; translated by Kim Boram ; afterword by So Young Hyun.
- Title
- Rina : a novel / Kang Young-sook ; translated by Kim Boram ; afterword by So Young Hyun.
- Author
- Kang, Yŏng-suk, 1966-
- Publication
- Victoria, TX : Dalkey Archive Press, 2015.
- ©2015
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- Description
- 255 pages; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Rina is a defector from a country that might be North Korea, traversing an "empty and futile" landscape. Along the way, she is forced to work at a chemical plant, murders a few people, becomes a prostitute, runs a lucrative bar, and finds a solace in a motley family of wanderers all as disenfranchised as she. Brutal and unflinching, with elements of the mythic and grotesque interspersed with hard-edged realism, Rina is a pioneering work of Korean postmodernism.
- Series Statement
- Library of Korean literature ; 16
- Uniform Title
- Rina. English
- Library of Korean literature ; 16.
- Alternative Title
- Rina.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Bildungsromans.
- Bildungsromans
- Fiction
- Fiction.
- Note
- First published in Korean in 2011 by Munhakdongne.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Korean.
- ISBN
- 9781628971156
- 1628971150
- LCCN
- ^^2015030139
- 40025630152
- OCLC
- 918940639
- SCSB-13685412
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library