Shining a light on Korean sorrow in Japan

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Shining a light on Korean sorrow in Japan

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Article: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2011/04/17/books/book-reviews/shining-a-light-on-korean-sorrow-in-japan/#.VyMEifmLTX5
Journal: japantimes
Issued Date: April 17, 2011
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Language: English(English)
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Writer: Kim Sa-ryang

About the Author

Kim Sa-ryang
Birth : 1914 ~ 1950
Occupation : Novelist
First Name : Sa-ryang
Family Name : Kim
Korean Name : 김사량
ISNI : 0000000374741955
Works : 8

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The eight stories in this anthology span nearly 60 years, from 1939, when Korea was a resentful and mutinous Japanese colony, to 1997, when South Korea was a thriving democracy and young people there and in Japan were more apt to be united by their involvement in each other’s pop culture than divided by ethnic and political hatreds. Interestingly enough, peace and prosperity seem to have solved little. The passions of the last story are as violent and despairing as those of the first — in a sense more so. At least in the early stories the characters could look forward to a future when peace and prosperity might set things right. Source: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2011/04/17/books/book-reviews/shining-a-light-on-korean-sorrow-in-japan/#.VyMEifmLTX5

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