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Description 작품 소개
A World History of Second Sons by Lee Ki-ho is a novel published in 2014. It won the Korea Times Literary Award that year. The novel had previously been serialized under the title The Power of Being Wanted in the quarterly World Literature from the fall of 2009 to the winter of 2010. With a lively prose style and sense of humor, the work captures how an individual’s life becomes warped by the military regime of the 1980s.
Author Bio 작가 소개
Lee Kiho was born in Wonju, Gangwon Province. He made his literary debut when his short story “Birney” won the Hyundae Munhak New Writer's Contest in 1999. He is the author of the collections of short stories, Choi Sunduk: Filled with the Holy Spirit, I Knew If I Stayed around Long Enough, Something like This Would Happpen, Who’s Doctor Kim?, Kang Min-ho, the Church Guy Friendly to Everyone, the novels At Least We Can Apologize, A World History of Second Sons, the novellas Circumstances of the Fire at Mogyang, and the short novels Unbothered Most of the Time, What is Learned in the Cradle is Carried to Summer, and Evidently a Love Story. He currently serves as a professor of creative writing at Gwangju University.
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