Chinatown
- Auteur: Oh Jung-hee (Zuid-Korea)
- Soort boek: Koreaanse verhalen
- Engelse vertaling: Bruce & Ju-Chan Fulton
- Uitgever: Penguin Modern Classics
- Verschijnt: 17 juli 2025
- Omvang: 112 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Prijs: £ 10,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Oh Jung-hee Chinatown review en recensie
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Flaptekst boek van de Zuid-Koreaanse schrijfster Oh Jung-hee
In this emblematic selection of her stories, Oh Jung-hee probes beneath the surface of seemingly quotidian lives to expose nightmarish family configurations warped by desertion, psychosis, and death. In ‘Chinatown’ a young girl living on the edge of the city’s Chinese community comes of age among mundane violences, collisions with adult sexuality and the American occupation; in ‘The Garden Party’ a woman grapples with her conflicting identities of wife, mother and writer at an alcohol-fuelled gathering. Throughout a career spanning six decades, Oh Jung-hee has drawn comparisons to Alice Munro, Virginia Woolf, and Joyce Carol Oates, and is assuredly a trailblazing writer.
Oh Jung-hee is born 9 November 1947 in Seoul, South Korea. She is often considered the grande dame of South Korean literature. Her work has received both the Yi Sang Literary Award and the Dong-in Literary Award, South Korea’s most prestigious prizes for short fiction, and has been translated into multiple languages in Southeast Asia, Latin America, the United States, and Europe.