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The Korean Literary Crime Wave: Jeong You-jeong’s The Good Son and Kim Un-su’s The Plotters

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Article
https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/the-korea-blog/korean-literary-crime-wave-jeong-jeongs-good-son-kim-un-sus-plotters/
Journal
BLARB – BLOG
Issued Date
July 18, 2021
Page
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Language
English(English)
Country
UNITED STATES
City
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Book
The good son , The Plotters
Writer
You-Jeong Jeong , Kim Un-su
Translator
Chi-Young Kim,Sora Kim-Russell

About the Author

  • Jeong You Jeong
  • Birth : 1966 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : You Jeong
  • Family Name : Jeong
  • Korean Name : 정유정
  • ISNI : 0000000044752010
  • Works : 41
Descriptions - 1 Languages
  • English(English)

Americans in general don’t emigrate at particularly high rates, but some Americans in particular are given to declaring, in moments of frustration, their imminent move to another country. Often that country is Canada, possibly because of the vague impressions it inspires of a more humane and orderly civilization (and more probably due to linguistic and geographic convenience). Sometimes that country is Sweden, which to certain observers represents the fullest possible realization of political and economic idyll in this world. But as enthusiasts of crime fiction know, not quite all can be well in the land that produces such great quantities of what has been labeled “Scandi noir.” In the United States — a nation whose readers’ appetite for crime fiction seems downright insatiable — that bleak, society-indicting genre is most popularly represented by Swedish journalist-novelist Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and its two sequels.

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  • English(English) Book Available
    The Plotters
    KIM UN-SU / 김언수 / 2019
  • Chinese(汉语) Book Available
    朝我的心脏开枪
    Jeong You Jeong et al / 정유정 / 2011
  • Chinese(汉语) Book Available
    13号橱柜
    Kim Un-su et al / 김언수 / 2009

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