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The Golden Bean Patch

About the E-Books

Author
Kim Yu-Jeong
Co-Author
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Translator
Eugene Larsen-Hallock
Publisher
Literature Translation Institute of Korea
Published Year
2013
Country
SOUTH KOREA (Seoul)
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 20th century > 1910-1945

Original Title
금따는 콩밭
Romanization of Original
Geumttaneun kongbat
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

ISBN
9788993360226
Page
-
Series
20th Century Korean Literature

About the Author

  • Kim Yujung
  • Birth : 1908 ~ 1937
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Yujung
  • Family Name : Kim
  • Korean Name : 김유정
  • ISNI : 0000000080701819
  • Works : 37
About the Original Work
  • 금따는 콩밭
  • Author : Kim Yujung
  • Published Year : 1935
  • English Title : The Golden Bean Patch
More About the Original Work
Descriptions -
  • English(English)

Kim Yu-jeong’s prose, with its liberal use of lively onomatopoeia, rustic dialects, and homespun colloquialisms, lends great animation to his subjects, providing readers with vitality-filled sketches of the impoverished and miserable lives lived by the lowest classes in rural villages under Japanese colonial rule. “The Golden Bean Patch” is a tale of the foolishness of man’s greed, and a reflection of the time Kim Yu-jeong spent around gold mines. Yeong-shik was a hardworking, simple farmer. But when Sujae suggests to him that a vein of gold runs beneath his field, he falls for temptation and digs up his bean plot in the hope of striking it rich and escaping from a life of poverty.