“A fatherless young girl now poised to become the victim of [the landlord’s] lecherous fangs and paws,” begins one of the original newspaper teasers describing The Country and the City and the fate of its heroine Sonbi. In a plot rich with Dickensian overtones, the novel paints a vivid picture of life in what is…
Without question, literature is the best place to start knowing and understanding one another. For isn’t there a real fascinating connection between writers and place – where people come from and where they go? A very large part of a nation’s writing is the story of its roots in a place and when Koreans come…