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RINA

RINA
Author
KANG YOUNG-SOOK
Co-Author
-
Translator
Kim Boram,Janet Hong
Publisher
Open Letter
Published Year
2024
Country
UNITED STATES
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century

Original Title
리나
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

Romanization of Original
Rina
ISBN
9781960385086
Page
350
Volume
-
Kang Young-sook
  • Kang Young-sook
  • Birth : - ~ Unknown
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Young-sook
  • Family Name : Kang
  • Korean Name : 강영숙
  • ISNI : 0000000050186043
  • Works : 8
Published Year Publisher Country Vendor
2024 Open Letter UNITED STATES OverDrive
Descriptions
  • English(English)

Rina is a defector from a country that might be North Korea, traversing an “empty and futile” landscape. Along the way, she is forced to work at a chemical plant, murders a few people, becomes a prostitute, runs a lucrative bar, and finds a solace in a motley family of wanderers all as disenfranchised as she. Brutal and unflinching, with elements of the mythic and grotesque interspersed with hard-edged realism, Rina is a pioneering work of Korean postmodernism.

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