I went to see my father
a novel
Book - 2023
"In the wake of a personal tragedy, a novelist goes back home in the Korean countryside to take care of her gentle father and learns, through the testimonies of his loving family and friends, how his lifelong kindness belies a past wrought in both private and national trauma"--
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Korean |
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New York :
Astra House,
[2023]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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MARC
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a I went to see my father : |b a novel / |c Kyung-Sook Shin ; translated by Anton Hur. |
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| 546 | |a In English, translated from the Korean. | ||
| 520 | |a Two years after losing her daughter in a tragic accident, Hon finally returns to her home in the countryside to take care of her father. After finding a check of letters, Hon discovers the truth of her father's past, and reconstructs her family. Her father's life spiraled after the civil war, and now Hon learns the whole trust of her father's affair and involvement in a religious sect and her family's financial hardships. -- adapted from jacket | ||
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