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I Met Loh Kiwan scrap

I Met Loh Kiwan

  • Author(s)

    Cho Haejin조해진

  • Translator(s)

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  • Publisher

    University of Hawaii PressUniversity of Hawaii Press

  • Country

    UNITED STATES

  • Language

    English(English)

  • Year Published

    2019

  • Category

    Literary Fiction 순수소설

  • Target User

    Adult 성인

  • Period

    Contemporary 현대

Description 작품 소개

This poignant short novel follows North Korean refugee Loh Kiwan to a place where he doesn’t speak the language or understand the customs. His story of hardship and determination is gradually revealed in flashbacks by the narrator, Kim, a writer for a South Korean TV show, who learned about Loh from a news report. She traces his progress from North Korea to Brussels to London as he struggles to make his way and find a home in an unfamiliar world.Readers come to see that Kim, too, has embarked on a journey, one driven by her need to understand what drives people to live, even thrive, despite tremendous loss and despair. Her own conflicted feelings of personal and professional guilt are mirrored in the novel’s other characters: Jae, Kim’s romantic interest and producer of the TV show she once wrote for; Yunju, a young cancer victim whose illness she now regrets exploiting; Pak, a doctor who helped Loh in Brussels, yet suffers deep remorse over the many life and death decisions he has made for his patients. Cho Haejin weaves these characters into a story of hope and trust, one that asks basic questions about what it means to be human and humane.First published in 2011 in South Korea, this timely book won the 2013 Shin Dong-yup Prize for Literature.Reference : University of Hawaii Press. "I Met Loh Kiwan", https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/i-met-loh-kiwan/. accessed 18 Oct 2023.

Author Bio 작가 소개

Cho Haejin

Cho Haejin조해진

This poignant short novel follows North Korean refugee Loh Kiwan to a place where he doesn’t speak the language or understand the customs. His story of hardship and determination is gradually revealed in flashbacks by the narrator, Kim, a writer for a South Korean TV show, who learned about Loh from a news report. She traces his progress from North Korea to Brussels to London as he struggles to make his way and find a home in an unfamiliar world.Readers come to see that Kim, too, has embarked on a journey, one driven by her need to understand what drives people to live, even thrive, despite tremendous loss and despair. Her own conflicted feelings of personal and professional guilt are mirrored in the novel’s other characters: Jae, Kim’s romantic interest and producer of the TV show she once wrote for; Yunju, a young cancer victim whose illness she now regrets exploiting; Pak, a doctor who helped Loh in Brussels, yet suffers deep remorse over the many life and death decisions he has made for his patients. Cho Haejin weaves these characters into a story of hope and trust, one that asks basic questions about what it means to be human and humane.First published in 2011 in South Korea, this timely book won the 2013 Shin Dong-yup Prize for Literature.Reference : University of Hawaii Press. "I Met Loh Kiwan", https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/i-met-loh-kiwan/. accessed 18 Oct 2023.

Original Work 원작

I Met Ro Gi-wan

로기완을 만났다

By Cho Haejin (조해진)

Changbi Publishers (2024-02)

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