Introduction
1. Days in the Wild
2. Seoul, So Far Away
3. Beyond the Gates
4. Friendless Child
5. The Triangle-Yard House
6. Grandmother and Grandfather
7. Mother and Brother
8. Spring in My Hometown
9. The Hurled Nameplate
10. Groping in the Dark
11. The Eve Before the Storm
12. Epiphany
Park Wan-suh (1931–2011) broke into Korea’s literary scene in the
1970s and in 1981 received the prestigious Yi Sang Literary Award
for her novel Mother’s Stake. Her prolific career included more
than 150 short stories and novellas and close to twenty novels. Her
works in translation include My Very Last Possession and The Naked
Tree.
Yu Young-nan is a freelance translator living in Seoul. She has
translated five Korean novels into English, including Park
Wan-suh's The Naked Tree and Yom Sang-seop's Three Generations. Yu
was awarded the Daesan Literature Prize for her translation of Yi
In-hwa's Everlasting Empire.
Stephen J. Epstein is associate professor and director of the Asian
Languages and Cultures Programme at the Victoria University of
Wellington.
Lyrical in its descriptions of village life, this gripping book is
written with a confessional chattiness that contrasts with the
hardships it describes.
*Financial Times*
Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is essential reading.
*List: Books from Korea*
Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is clearly a volume that should be added
to the growing staple of works taughts in Korean literature,
culture, and history courses.
*Journal of Asian Studies*
Though it feels rather like a memoir, the novel is an entertaining
and sometimes heart-wrenching read as Park's brilliant use of
language, as well as genuine depiction of its characters shine from
the beginning to the end.
*Korea Herald*
Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is a pleasure not only to read but to
behold. Let us hope that although the author is no longer with us
physically, her spiritual presence will be maintained through other
excellent translations of her works.
*Korean Quarterly*
A deeply moving, warm personal tale.
*Korea.net*
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