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A Very Old Joke

A Very Old Joke scrap

아주 오래된 농담

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  • ISBN

    9788939206489

  • Author

    Park Wansuh박완서

  • Publisher

    Silcheon실천문학사

  • Year Published

    2011

  • Category

    Literary Fiction 소설

  • Target User

    Adult 성인

  • Period

    Contemporary 현대

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Description 작품 소개

This is a novel by Park Wansuh, published in 2000. It unfolds the story with two main plots—Shim Yeong-bin’s affair and Song Gyeong-ho’s death. It deals with the truth and hypocrisy in which things are evaluated by capitalist standards, and shows a deep exploration of human nature.

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박완서

Park Wansuh박완서

Park Wansuh(1931–2011) was one of Korea’s most revered writers. She debuted at the age of forty and wrote over a hundred novels and short stories in a career that spanned almost forty years. She received several prestigious awards, including the Republic of Korea’s Geumgwan Order of Cultural Merit. Recently published translations of her books include Who Ate up All the Shinga? (Columbia University Press, 2009), Lonesome You (Dalkey Archive, 2013), and Was that Mountain Really There? (Kitaab, 2018).

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