Rina
ISBN-13: 9781960385086
Author(s): Young-sook Kang
Subjects: FA, FBA
Publisher: Open Letter
Publisher Imprint: Open Letter
Publication Date: 31-10-2024
Format: Paperback / softback
Availability: In stock
£15.99
About the book
Rina is a defector from a country that might be North Korea, traversing an 'empty and futile' landscape. Along the way, she is forced to work at a chemical plant, murders a few people, becomes a prostitute, runs a lucrative bar, and finds a solace in a motley family of wanderers all as disenfranchised as she. Brutal and unflinching, with elements of the mythic and grotesque interspersed with hard-edged realism, Rina is a pioneering work of Korean postmodernism.