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Father and Son: A Novel
| Author: Han Sung-won
Translators: Yu Young-nan & Julie Pickering
ISBN-13: 978-1-931907-04-0
ISBN-10: 1931907048
Order No. 1010
5.5 x 8.5, Paperback
285 pages, 2002
$17.95
20% off: $14.36
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
Father and Son focuses on the age-old struggle between the generations
within the context of modern industrialization and the battle for
democratic freedoms in Korea. In this novel, Chu-ch'ol, a successful
poet-publisher, is tormented by his son's antigovernment activities
and lack of filial respect, by the cynical questioning of a cousin-turned-government
agent, and, not least, by his own guilty conscience. Through Chu-ch'ol
and his extended family, the author explores the role of the intellectual
in modern Korean society and the changing face of the Korean family
as tradition gives way to economic growth and social upheaval.
THE AUTHOR
Han Sung-won is a prolific writer with more than two dozen novels and a steady stream of short story collections and essays. He is the recipient of numerous literary awards, including the 1980 Literature Prize of the Korean Writers Association, the 1982 Literature Prize of the Republic of Korea, the 1983 Literature Prize for Korean Writers, the 1987 Modern Literature Award, and the 1988 Yi Sang Literary Award. In his writing, Han examines the lives of individuals and families straddling the divide between tradition and modernity, between political freedom and capitulation, and between rural and urban life.
THE TRANSLATORS
Yu Young-nan is a freelance translator based in
Seoul. Her literary translations include The Naked Tree, The Everlasting
Empire, and Farmers. Julie Pickering's literary
translations include The Prophet and Other Stories, and co-translations
The Descendents of Cain and The People of Wonmi-dong.
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