Drifting House
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Drifting House

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eBook - ePub

Drifting House

About this book

A haunting and unforgettable debut spanning the last seventy years of Korean history, including the BBC Short Story Prize shortlisted story 'The Goose Father'.

Alternating between the lives of Koreans struggling through seventy years of turbulent, post-World War II history in their homeland and the communities of Korean immigrants grappling with assimilation in the United States, Krys Lee's haunting debut story collection Drifting House weaves together intricate tales of family and love, abandonment and loss on both sides of the Pacific.

In the title story, children escaping famine in North Korea are forced to make unthinkable sacrifices to survive. The tales set in America reveal the immigrants' unmoored existence, playing out in cramped apartments and Koreatown strip malls, from the abandoned wife in 'A Temporary Marriage' who enters into a sham marriage to find her kidnapped daughter to the makeshift family in 'At the Edge of the World' which is fractured when a shaman from the old country moves in next door.

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2012
eBook ISBN
9780571276196
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literature General
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. Table of Contents
  6. A TEMPORARY MARRIAGE
  7. AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
  8. THE PASTOR’S SON
  9. THE GOOSE FATHER
  10. THE SALARYMAN
  11. DRIFTING HOUSE
  12. A SMALL SORROW
  13. THE BELIEVER
  14. BEAUTIFUL WOMEN
  15. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  16. About the Author
  17. Copyright

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