Author: Jang-Soon Sohn
Translator: Jin-Young Choi, Ph.D.
ISBN-13: 978-1-931907-18-7
ISBN-10: 1931907188
Order No. 1026
Size: 5.5 x 8.5, Paperback
178 pages, 2004
$14.95
20% off: $11.96
BOOK DESCRIPTION
A Floating City on the Water is a novel that carves
in powerful relief how ideological division between South
and North Korea wreaks tragic consequences upon a family for
three generations. It is also a poignant story of incest between
Sujin, an older sister born and raised in South Korea and
Hansuk, a younger brother born in North Korea, who meet and
fall in love in Paris, and who find out much later that they
are siblings of the same parents.
Too horrified and anguished over their fate, they decide
to stay far apart and live their separate lives, Hansuk in
France and Sujin in Korea. Sujin has never told Hansuk of
the existence of Hyungwoo, their son. After nearly 20 years,
Hyungwoo meets his father in a dramatic encounter …
THE AUTHOR
Jang-Soon Sohn is one of the leading Korean novelists
well known for her prize-winning novel, The Koreans, which
has been translated into French. A graduate of Seoul National
University with a B.A. in French, she studied French Literature
at Sorbonne in Paris. She taught at Han Yang University while
actively creating many literary works including The Castle
of Sehwa, The Woman of Ambition, and The Shim Family, in addition
to numerous short stories and essays.
THE TRANSLATOR
Jin-Young Choi is Professor of English at Chung-Ang
University in Seoul. She has translated, among others, Won-Il
Kim's The Wind and the River and Unspoken Voices (2002, Homa
& Sekey Books), a collection of short stories by Korean
women writers. Choi's weekly columns on The Korea Herald have
been published in one volume, One Woman's Way.
