Ancco / 앙꼬 / 2018 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century > Romance

A STORY OF THE ENDURING QUALITY OF FEMALE FRIENDSHIP AMID A GRITTY LANDSCAPE OF ABUSE   Pearl is bad. She smokes, drinks, runs away from home, and has no qualms making her parents worry. Her mother and sister beg her to be a better student, sister, daughter; her beleaguered father expresses his concerns with his fists. Bad Friends is set in the 1990s in a South Korea torn between tradition and Western modernity and haunted by an air of generalized gloom. Cycles of abuse abound as the characters enact violence within their power structures: parents beat children, teachers beat students, older students beat younger students. But at each moment the duress verges on bleakness, Ancco pulls back with soft moments of friendship between Pearl and her best friend, Jeong-ae. What unfolds is a story of female friendship, a Ferrante-esque connection formed through youthful excess, malaise, and struggle that stays with the young women into adulthood.   Served by a dry and precise line, Bad Friends viscerally captures the adolescent years of two young women who want and know they deserve something different, but, ultimately, are unable to follow through. In a culture where young women are at a systemic disadvantage, Ancco creates a testimonial to female friendship as a powerful tool for survival. Pearl forgets her worst adolescent memories, but she cannot ever shake the memory of her friendship with Jeong-ae during her most tumultuous years.   Bad Friends is translated from Korean by Janet Hong, an award-winning writer and translator based in Vancouver, Canada. Her translations include Han Yujoo’s The Impossible Fairy Tale (Graywolf Press, 2017) and Ha Seong-nan’s The Woman Next Door (forthcoming from Open Letter Books in 2019). She is currently long listed for the 2018 PEN Translation Prize.   Source URL : https://www.drawnandquarterly.com/bad-friends  

Ancco / 앙꼬 / 2018 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century > Romance

Portavoce del disagio giovanile, Ancco è un riferimento per un'intera generazione in Corea. "Ragazze cattive", premio rivelazione ad Angoulème 2017, è il ritratto lucido e brutale di un'adolescenza negli anni Novanta. Due giovani ragazze, complici nel dolore, cercano la libertà e il divertimento prima di precipitare nel mondo degli adulti. Una storia di abusi, aspra e delicata, in un paese nel pieno di una crisi economica e morale dove la violenza è la normalità. Un bianco e nero secco e profondo che ci avvolge nel cuore della notte    Source : https://www.libreriauniversitaria.it/ragazze-cattive-ancco-canicola/libro/9788899524326

Ancco / 앙꼬 / 2020 / KDC구분 > Social science

At nineteen, the idea that you have your whole life ahead of you with endless possibilities can leave you terrifyingly stiff. Throwing mobility to the wind, you dull yourself with booze. The grown-ups around you are stunted by their own failures so they act out―with alcohol, too, sometimes with violence. What was once the hope of youth quickly spirals into powerlessness and malaise as the days trickle by. Ancco expertly renders the moment of suspension between the desire to grow up and the fear that accompanies it. Autobiography blends with fiction in these coming-of-age stories about people reckoning with their place in their community and women coming to terms with other women. A boy living with HIV tries to decide how he’s going to tell his parents―or whether he should tell them at all. A mother puts pressure on her daughter to pass her exams, and the stress drives them both to drink, fueling a toxic relationship with a lot of care just below the ugly surface. Another girl keeps getting bruises, but who’s inflicting the damage―herself or a loved one? And dogs―seemingly the only ones capable of unconditional love―offer some reprieve. In Nineteen, Ancco delivers a cutting panorama of contemporary Korean society that’s much darker than one might expect, while also brimming with life and the vitality of youth.   Source : https://www.amazon.com/Nineteen-Ancco/dp/1770464107

Ancco / 앙꼬 / 2023 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century > Romance

“Quando penso no meu tempo de escola... me lembro daquelas noites, tão escuras, e de seus cheiros.” A história se passa no fim dos anos 90, em uma Core ia dividida entre a tradição e a modernidade. Submetida diariamente ao abuso físico e psicológico de seus pais e professores, a jovem Jinju encontra refúgio nas tardes com sua amiga Jeong-ae. Tardes regadas a álcool, cigarros e desabafos. Cansadas da s surras constantes e do tédio cotidiano, as duas decidem fugir de casa, mas logo descobrem que o mundo lá fora não é tão gentil quanto parece. Source : https://www.magazineluiza.com.br/mas-companhias/p/aa962ae2a1/li/otli/