One Human Family and Other Stories
AUTHOR
Yeun-hee Chung
TRANSLATOR
Hyun-jae Yee Sallee
The devastating hold the Korean War still has on the ordinary citizens of South Korea is revealed here in a novella and four short stories. Although the war happened many years ago, old animosities remain, and elderly nursing home residents are traumatized by their belief that the new resident was a collaborator. A child is made a laughing stock when she thinks the condoms tossed aside on the beach by American GIs are balloons.
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Yeun-hee Chung, born in 1936 in Seoul. She has since published several novels and numerous short stories and essays. Ms. Chung has received numerous literary awards, including the Korean Literary Writers Award. An important and influential contemporary Korean writer, her writing focuses on the inner strength and virtue displayed by ordinary people.