One Spoon on This Earth

by Hyun Ki-young, Jennifer M. Lee (Translator)

Overview

An autobiographical novel that takes a life to pieces, putting forward not a coherent, straightforward narrative, but a series of dazzling images ranging from the ordinary to the unbelievable, fished from the depths of the author's memory as well as from the stream of his day-to-day life as an adult author. Interweaving flashes of the horrific Jeju Uprising and the Korean War with pleasant family anecdotes, stories of schoolroom cruelty, and bizarre digressions into his personal mythology, One Spoon on this Earth stands a sort of digest of contemporary Korean history as it might be seen through the lens of one man's life and opinions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781564789501
Publisher:	Deep Vellum Publishing
Publication date:	09/26/2013
Series:	Library of Korean Literature Series , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	366
Sales rank:	751,536
File size:	368 KB

About the Author

Hyun, Ki-young was born on Jeju Island in 1941 and graduated from Seoul National University. He has served as the Managing Director of the National Literary Writers Association and as the President of the Korean Arts & Culture Foundation (2003).  Hyun was also the director of the Committee for the Investigation of the April 3rd Jeju Uprising as well as the President of the Jeju Institute for the Investigation of Social Problems.

Jennifer M. Lee is a freelance translator. She is currently teaching English at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, Korea. Her translations include Yi Ch’ongjun’s classic novel Your Paradise.