Korean Diaspora Literature) Blood and Bones 1
ISBN 9781624121494
Language English
N. of Pages 452쪽
Size/Weight 140 * 203 * 30 mm / 644 g
Author/Editor Yang Seok-il
Publisher Seoul Selection
Date of Publication 2022년 12월 26일
Country of Origin Korea
ISBN 9781624121494
Language English
N. of Pages 452쪽
Size/Weight 140 * 203 * 30 mm / 644 g
Author/Editor Yang Seok-il
Publisher Seoul Selection
Date of Publication 2022년 12월 26일
Country of Origin Korea
ISBN 9781624121494
Language English
N. of Pages 452쪽
Size/Weight 140 * 203 * 30 mm / 644 g
Author/Editor Yang Seok-il
Publisher Seoul Selection
Date of Publication 2022년 12월 26일
Country of Origin Korea
About the book
It is Osaka in the 1930s. Kim Shunpei, a migrant from Jeju Island, works at a fish cake factory and is widely feared for his physical strength and brutality. He moves through life in the only way he knows how: by terrorizing those around him.
A bestseller in Japan, this harrowing, kaleidoscopic novel portrays the violent and eventful life of a flawed man modeled after the author's own father.
Publisher book reviews
Blood and Bones, originally published in Japanese in 1998, follows a half-century of the violent, eventful life of migrant worker Kim Shunpei in Osaka. Feared by coworkers, bosses, neighbors, family members, and gangs alike, he moves through life in the only way he knows how: by terrorizing those around him. Yang Seok-il's vivid portrait of Kim Shunpei is modeled after the life of his own father. Built from intimate memories of struggle in the gritty underbelly of Osaka, Yang's harrowing, kaleidoscopic novel depicts how patriarchal violence and restricted life chances can wrack a minority Korean community both during and after Japan's empire.
