Rina a novel
Rina is a defector from a country that might be North Korea, traversing an "empty and futile" landscape. Along the way, she is forced to work at a chemical plant, murders a few people, becomes a prostitute, runs a lucrative bar, and finds a solace in a motley family of wanderers all as dis...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Korean |
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Victoria, TX
Dalkey Archive Press
2015
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| Edition: | First edition |
| Series: | Library of Korean literature
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| Summary: | Rina is a defector from a country that might be North Korea, traversing an "empty and futile" landscape. Along the way, she is forced to work at a chemical plant, murders a few people, becomes a prostitute, runs a lucrative bar, and finds a solace in a motley family of wanderers all as disenfranchised as she. Brutal and unflinching, with elements of the mythic and grotesque interspersed with hard-edged realism, Rina is a pioneering work of Korean postmodernism |
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| Physical Description: | 255 páginas ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781628971156 (pbk. : alk. paper) |