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YEARS AND YEARS scrap

YEARS AND YEARS

Author(s)
Hwang Jungeun황정은
Translator(s)
Janet HongJanet Hong
Publisher
Open Letter BooksOpen Letter Books
Country
UNITED STATES
Language
English(English)
Year Published
2024
Category
Literary Fiction 순수소설
Target User
Adult 성인
Period
Contemporary 현대

Description 작품 소개

English

Three women—the old mother and her two daughters—contemplate their family life and their bottled-up feelings through the novel’s placating yet oddly unnerving prose.

Years and Years is divided into four large chapters; the first unravels from the perspective of Sejin, younger daughter, the second from that of Youngjin, older daughter, the third from the mother’s, and the fourth, back to Sejin’s. Throughout the course of the novel, a number of themes are developed, including its discussion of interracial marriage, different forms of family, and sexual minorities. Circumstances and history forced the mother to the life of obedience, familial obligations and financial hardship forced Youngjin to give up her dream and support the family, and the reality of her culture forced Sejin to be in the closet. And all the while, these three women, while empathizing with each other, seem entrapped in the cycle of forcing each other to further succumb.

Reference

Open Letter. "YEARS AND YEARS", https://www.openletterbooks.org/collections/korea/products/year-after-year. accessed 15 January 2024.

Author Bio 작가 소개

Hwang Jungeun황정은

Three women—the old mother and her two daughters—contemplate their family life and their bottled-up feelings through the novel’s placating yet oddly unnerving prose. Years and Years is divided into four large chapters; the first unravels from the perspective of Sejin, younger daughter, the second from that of Youngjin, older daughter, the third from the mother’s, and the fourth, back to Sejin’s. Throughout the course of the novel, a number of themes are developed, including its discussion of interracial marriage, different forms of family, and sexual minorities. Circumstances and history forced the mother to the life of obedience, familial obligations and financial hardship forced Youngjin to give up her dream and support the family, and the reality of her culture forced Sejin to be in the closet. And all the while, these three women, while empathizing with each other, seem entrapped in the cycle of forcing each other to further succumb.

Original Work 원작

Every Year

연년세세

By Hwang Jungeun (황정은)

Changbi Publishers (2020-09)

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