Chinatown
By Oh Jung-hee
2004
First Published
3.83
Average Rating
139
Number of Pages
Part of Series
Bilingual (English/Korean); part of the Modern Korean Short Stories Series. Korea was an arduous and painstaking place to live in after the nation's civil war. Incheon, one of the war's most famous backdrops, provides the setting for Chinatown, the story of life in one of the ubiquitous shantytown areas that dotted the Korean landscape at the time, and is a painfully real account of what many suffered through. It is also a grim tale of how Koreans, American soldiers and Chinese vendors failed to understand each other on any meaningful level.
Avg Rating
3.83
Number of Ratings
80
5 STARS
24%
4 STARS
41%
3 STARS
30%
2 STARS
4%
1 STARS
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Author
Oh Jung-hee
Author · 5 books
Oh Jung-Hee (born November 9, 1947) (Hangul: 오정희) is a South Korean writer. Oh has captured both the Yi Sang Literary Award and the Dongin Literary Award, Korea's most prestigious prizes for short fiction, and her works have been translated into multiple foreign languages in Southeast Asia, Latin America and Europe. (from Wikipedia)
