- Overview
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As seen through the eyes of Truong, a Vietnamese woman, this story conveys that a woman emigrating for marriage is not a foreigner in her new country but a normal woman dreaming of a better life.
- Book Intro
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Sseu-eong
Truong, a young and healthy Vietnamese woman with dark brown eyes and dark skin, lives in a rural village in Korea with a man she married with the help of an international marriage agency. An arson incident occurs in the quiet village. It's Truong's house. The incident occurs while Truong is not home, and her mother-in-law dies in the fire. The husband believes that Truong is the arsonist. Since the incident, her husband has stopped working and spends his days living as a drunkard.
Seo Seongran, the author, focused on the lives of married migrant women in today's era of multiculturalism, turning their stories into a novel by adding her own imagination.
Readers will cheer for Truong, realizing that she is more than just a foreigner who has migrated through marriage and that she is an ordinary woman with dreams of a better life.
- About the Author
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Seo Seongran
(English) Seo was born in Iksan in 1967, and grew up in Sadang-dong in Seoul. She studied Korean literature at Seogyung University, and received her MD in creative writing at Chung-ang University.
She debuted as the recipient of the Silcheon Literature New Writer award with Grandma’s Peace, in 1996. Her books include A Room Memory, Paprika, A Bedless Woman, and she has also written novels such as A Moon That Never Goes Away, A Special Guest, The Seventh Twenty Years Old, A Good-Year Restaurant Recipe, Sseu-eong, etc.
(French) Je suis née à Iksan et a grandi à Séoul. J'ai étudié la littérature et la langue coréennes à l'université Seokyeong et ai terminé mes études en master et doctorat en écriture créative de l'école supérieure à l'université Chung-Ang. Je suis diplômé de doctorat par "La recherche sur la narration des femmes mariées migrantes du roman coréen". En 1996, en remportant le prix du jeune talent de la littérature pratique pour le roman court "La grande-mère et la paix". J'ai publié les collections de nouvelles pièces "Mémoire sur la chambre", "Paprika", "La fille sans lit" et les grands romans "Le mois où tous ne dispraît pas", "Invité spécial", "Le septième 20 ans" et "La recette du restaurant Punnyeon" etc.
- Selection
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"Busan Cultural Foundation, 2017, Outstanding Book Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism, 2017, Sejong Books for Sharing Literature Busan International Film Festival, 2017, Book-to-Film in Asian Film Market"