Park Kyung-ni(ree), one of the most important Korean novelists has passed. Her masterwork entitled “The Land” (toji) is believed to be the summation of modern Korean literature. The first two sections have been translated into English and can be found here.
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i’ve never heard of the book until today. i’d like to read it, but $100 is a bit steep. anyone know where i could buy a korean paperback copy (if it exists at all, that is)?
Is that the one about a woman managing ginseng farms? It’s been a long time since I read it… kinda fuzzy.
Yes, there is a paperback version of “the Land”, in Hangul, but it comes in twenty-one volumes since it is a story that stretches in time from 1897 until after the war. (You might want to stretch out the reading) Try a Naver search for distributors.
She did have a farm and here is another article on her.
My wife’s parents live a 3-4 minute walk from her house. It’s a cool round house in Wonju in Dangu-dong. There is a little park there that has small scale replicas of areas she wrote about.
There was a banner outside wishing her to get well. We were just there for a wedding this weekend.
Most Koreans seem to know a bit about the book, but only the bravest have soldiered through it. It’s very long.. a “Roman Pleuve” is how they describe it.
for those who don’t know what a
‘roman fleuve’(not pleuve) is:
a French novel in the form of a long chronicle of a family or other social group
A dignified and peaceful ending to a long and fruitful life.
The joongAng Ilbo also has another good article on her here.