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The Old Woman with the Knife

Author

Gu Byeongmo

Publisher

Wisdom House, Inc

Categories

Literature & Fiction

Audience

Adult

Overseas Licensing

Keywords

  • #UAE Online Consultation

Copyright Contact

Min-kyung Kwon

  • Publication Date

    2018-04-16
  • No. of pages

    344
  • ISBN

    9791162203620
  • Dimensions

    128 * 188
Overview

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Book Intro

The Old Woman with the Knife

A woman in her 60s has been working as a contract killer for over 40 years. People are starting to lose respect for her as she is getting older. She  finds void in herself, and starts feeling compassion for all living things. As she changes she also wants to find things that she wants to protect.

 

 

About the Author

Gu Byeongmo



(English) The author graduated from Kyung Hee University majoring in Korean and Korean literature and worked as an editor. She started her career with The Wizard Bakery, in 2009, and won the second Changbi Youth Literary Award. As a story collector and tenacious observer of reality, Gu has freely crossed the boundaries between teen fiction and pure literature. Her 2015 short story collection Hopefully It’s Not Just Me received the Today’s Writer Award and Hwang Sun-won New Writers’ Award. She's written the novels Neighbor’s Table, The Old Woman with the Knife, and Grills and the short story collection Hopefully It’s Not Just Me and The Red Shoes Party. Novels written by Gu include The Pygmalion Children, Come to the Ark, and A Spoonful of Time.

 

(Japanese) 1976年ソウル生まれ。慶煕大学国語国文学科を卒業後、編集者として活動。2009年『ウィザード・ベーカリー』で作品活動を開始。第2回チャンビ青少年文学賞を受賞した『ウィザード・ベーカリー』は、新人らしくない安定した文章力とスムーズな展開、魅力的なストーリーが高く評価された。

 

(Vietnamese) Tốt nghiệp khoa Ngôn ngữ và văn học trường Đại học Kyunghee và hoạt động với vai trò biên tập. Năm 2009 bắt đầu sự nghiệp văn chương với tác phẩm "Wizard Bakery", tác phẩm đã giành giải Tác phẩm văn học thanh thiếu niên Chang-bi lần thứ 2. Năm 2015 tập tiểu thuyết "Tôi hy vọng đó không chỉ là tôi" đã giành giải Nhà văn của hôm nay và giải Văn học học mới Hwang Sun Won. Ngoài ra còn có các tác phẩm "Bàn ăn nhà hàng xóm", "dậy thì", "mang cá", "thời gian của một chiếc thìa".

 

(Russian) Ку Бёнмо родился в Сеуле в 1976 году. В 2009 году он получил Вторую Премию подростковой литературы Чанби за свой роман «Волшебная булочная». Он тщательно рассматривает реальность нашего общества и коллекционирует разные истории. Он пишет книги не только для подросткового возраста, но и прозу для взрослых. А в 2015 году он получил Премию для начинающих писателей имени Хван Сунвон и Литературную премию в  категории "Лучший писатель настоящего времени" за сборник рассказов «Надеюсь, чтобы это был только не я (Hopefully It’s Not Just Me )». Помимо вышеуказанных книг, он также написал романы «Стол моего соседа(Neighbor’s Table)» и «Подпорченные фрукты(Damaged Fruit)», «Жабры (Gills)», сборник рассказов «Недеюсь, чтобы это был только не я (Hopefully It’s Not Just Me)» и т.д.

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