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The Tear of Veronica

Author

Kwon Ji-ye

Publisher

EunHaeng NaMu Publishing Co., Ltd.

Categories

Literature & Fiction

Audience

Adult

Overseas Licensing

Keywords

  • #Korean literature
  • #Foreign countries
  • #unfamiliar places

Copyright Contact

Kim Seohae

  • Publication Date

    2019-12-06
  • No. of pages

    336
  • ISBN

    9791189982515
  • Dimensions

    128 * 188
Overview

This book includes one novella and five short stories, and by placing the characters in unfamiliar places, the book delves into unveiling minute changes in the characters’ emotions as well as in their relationships.

Book Intro

In order to break away from boredom and routine, people travel and throw themselves into a foreign land. Traveling can bring people together, but it can also bring out different or hidden sides in us so that someone close to us may seem transformed in front of our very eyes. Sometimes you can also discover something new or foreign in your own self. Kwon’s work uses travel in order to bring out what we have neglected or ignored, and as buried stories spring up and are shared in an unfamiliar setting, they appeal to us with more honesty and take on more meaning. In her book, the characters discover in their friends or family members a side to them which they never knew, and they are confronted with it as if reading fiction with a surprising ending.  So Yeong-hyeon, a literary critic, wrote about Kwon Ji-ye’s novels that “when one steps away from their routine, everything becomes clearer. Kwon looks closely at the hidden side of life by having her characters travel.” The theme that connects all the stories in Tears of Veronica is the discovery of the hidden side of life. Things people thought they knew, or they thought they knew well, turn out to be not true at all. They wanted to believe that they knew it, or had it under control, or simply bent the truth to suit their own ideas. In the stories, the characters are given a chance to look with fresh eyes at what they took for granted, especially their relationships with people close to them as they travel a foreign land, and the truth that has been buried begins to surface to surprise everyone, including readers.     

About the Author

Kwon Ji-ye



Kwon Ji-ye made her debut as a novelist with La Plume in 1997. Collections of stories Kwon has created include The Dreaming Marionette and The Burst of Laughter. Novels Kwon has written include The Beautiful Hell (2 volumes total), The Fish in April and The Lure (5 volumes total.) The Pictured collection of novels Kwon has published include Either You Love or Become Crazy and Van Gogh, a Man who Became a Star at 37. Collections of essays Kwon has created include Kwon Jiye’s Paris, Paris, Paris and The Happy Holic. Kwon won the Yi Sang Literary Award with her work The Eel Stew in 2002 and the Dongin Literary Award with The Grave of the Crab in 2005.

 

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