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Wandering of a Hundred Ghosts

Author

Song Kyungah

Publisher

SAKYEJUL PUBLISHING LTD.

Categories

Literature & Fiction

Audience

Adult

Overseas Licensing

Keywords

Copyright Contact

Kang Hyunjoo

  • Publication Date

    2020-09-18
  • No. of pages

    224
  • ISBN

    9791160946826
  • Dimensions

    124 * 189
Overview

Book Intro

In the episode of ‘My Snail Groom’, the main character is a snail groom, not ‘snail wife’. Even this snail groom can be bought from TV home shopping. So-Hyeon got a snail groom as a gift from her cousin who suggested to get married. There is only one caution that the user cannot happen to meet face to face with a snail groom when it turns into a human. This snail groom turns into a person when there is no one else around and successfully completes all kinds of house chores. 

One day, So Hyeon happened to face with this snail groom as a human when she got hung over after drinking with her cousin, and the snail groom requested her to get married to him not turning back to the snail. 

The episode of ‘Wandering of a Hundred Ghosts’ comically describe the reason a lot of ghosts wandering on the streets of college towns during the spring night with pansori (Korean traditional music) tone. This is autobiographical story of the writer, and through the stories of Mi-Yeon and her colleagues at graduate school, majoring in Korean Literature, the writer cleverly and humorously points out the hard life of highly educated women, who cannot avoid social and economic disadvantage in our society. 

The episode of ‘Children in Hiroshima’ vividly presents the suffering and frustrations of rape victims through comparison with strong violence of atomic bomb by using symbolic metaphor technique. With the coexistence of realism and fantasy, humorous but sharp description, and various and experimental literary styles, this book shows questions and deep considerations of the writer about self-esteem and social relationship of women. The soul of characters in this story are wandering during the night, who also hurt or get hurt by each other through many relationships of the world. Their stories make us reflect on ourselves in a realistic way that we cannot dive into the real world, but also cannot completely leave the reality itself.

About the Author

Song Kyungah



Song Kyungah was born in 1971. After graduating from Yonsei University with a major in computer science, she studied at Yonsei’s graduate school for Korean literature and debuted as a fiction writer in 1994. Her published works include the novel Whether My Sister Loved or I Loved and the short story collections Excerpts from a Research on the Effects of Conjugal Relations between Two Humans, Terrorist, Book, and Elevator, as well as contributing to anthologies such as In Search of Lost Minds. She has also worked as a translator of books such as Agatha Christie’s A Caribbean Mystery, Scott Westerfield's Pretty and Ugly, Charlaine Harris's Club Dead and Dead to the World, Angie Sage's Septimus Heap, Stanislaw Lem's Cyberiad, Fritz Lieber's Conjure Wife, Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair, and others.

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