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Playing With Fire

Playing With Fire
Author
Co-Author
-
Translator
Chun Kyung-ja
Publisher
Cornell Univ. East Asia Program
Published Year
1997
Country
UNITED STATES
Classification

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

Original Title
불놀이
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

Romanization of Original
Bullori
ISBN
1885445652
Page
188
Volume
-
Writer default image
  • Jo Jung-Rae
  • Birth : 1943 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Jung-Rae
  • Family Name : Jo
  • Korean Name : 조정래
  • ISNI : 0000000080867085
  • Works : 53
No. Call No. Location Status Due Date Reservation
1 영어 813 조정래 불-전 LTI Korea Library Available - -
Descriptions
  • English(English)

In this work, the smoldering hatred of the Korean War period resurfaces decades later in the form of a ruthless quest for justice. The main character, a successful Seoul businessman, has a secret past: unknown to his wife and son, he once led another life under another name as a ruthless communist partisan. After a lifelong search, the son of one of his wartime victims discovers his true identity, then proceeds calmly and deliberately to exact a terrible revenge. 

Playing With Fire was awarded the prestigious Korean National Literature Prize upon its publication in 1982. Cho Chong-Rae's novella "Land of Exile" appeared in English translation in 1992. Cho subsequently published the immensely popular ten-volume historical novel The Taebaek Mountains (Taebaek Sanmaek), which sold millions in Korea in the late 1980s and was successfully adapted into a film. In the 1990s Cho continued his success with Arirang, another ten-volume roman fleuve set in the period of Japan's occupation of Korea.

 

 

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