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Modern Family
2010
First Published
3.59
Average Rating
288
Number of Pages

Forty-year-old In-mo, a movie director who's been jobless for the past decade decides to move in with his widowed mother. His older brother, with five criminal convictions, has already moved back. Then younger sister Mi-yeon arrives with her bratty, rebellious fifteen-year-old daughter. Mom is delighted to have her entire dysfunctional family back again, but what ensues is both comic and frightening. Fast-paced and imaginative, Modern Family introduces English-speaking readers to a bright new voice in world literature. Cheon Myeong-Kwan won the Tenth Munhakdongne Novel Award for The Queen of Red Bricks. Modern Family has been made into a movie in Korea.

Avg Rating
3.59
Number of Ratings
111
5 STARS
20%
4 STARS
36%
3 STARS
29%
2 STARS
14%
1 STARS
2%
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Author

Cheon Myeong-Kwan
Cheon Myeong-Kwan
Author · 3 books

Cheon Myeong-kwan is a South Korean novelist, screenwriter and director whose work has been translated into eight languages. Upon publication of the author’s first story, Frank and I (2003), he received the prestigious Munhakdongne New Writer Award. Cheon’s debut novel, Whale, was published the following year. It won the 10th Munhakdongne Novel Award and has become one of the most loved novels in South Korea, where it is regarded as a modern classic. Associated Names: * Cheon Myeong-Kwan * 천명관 (Korean Profile)

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