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No One Writes Back (Library of Korean Literature, 10, Band 10) - Softcover

Buch 10 von 10: Library of Korean Literature

Eun-Jin, Jang

 
9781564789600: No One Writes Back (Library of Korean Literature, 10, Band 10)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1564789608 ISBN 13: 9781564789600
Verlag: Dalkey Archive Press, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Communication—or the lack thereof—is the subject of this sly update of the picaresque novel.  

No One Writes Back is the story of a young man who leaves home with only his blind dog, an MP3 player, and a book, traveling aimlessly for three years, from motel to motel, meeting people on the road. Rather than learn the names of his fellow travelers—or even invent nicknames for them—he assigns them numbers. There's 239, who once dreamed of being a poet, but who now only reads her poems to a friend in a coma; there's 109, who rides trains endlessly because of a broken heart; and 32, who's already decided to commit suicide. The narrator writes letters to these men and women in the hope that he can console them in their various miseries, as well as keep a record of his own experiences: "A letter is like a journal entry for me, except that it gets sent to other people." No one writes back, of course, but that doesn't mean that there isn't some hope that one of them will, someday...

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jang Eun-Jin was born in Gwangju, Korea, in 1976, and graduated from the Department of Geography at Cheonnam National University. She made her literary debut with her receipt of the Joongang Daily New Writers Award, and has since published four novels and a collection of short stories. 

Jung Yewon was born in Seoul, and moved to the US at the age of 12. She received a BA in English from Brigham Young University, and an MA from the Graduate School of Interpretation and Translation at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.

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Verlag
Dalkey Archive Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1564789608
ISBN 13 
9781564789600
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
203
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