
Hailed by critics, "Stingray" has been described by its author as "a critical biography of my loving mother." With his father having abandoned his family for another woman, Se-young and his mother are forced to subsist on their own in the harsh environment of a small Korean farming village in the 1950s. Determined to wait for her husband's return, Se-young's mother hangs a dried stingray on the ki...
Series: Library of Korean Literature (Book 1)
Paperback: 124 pages
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press (November 16, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1564789594
ISBN-13: 978-1564789594
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.4 x 8.5 inches
Amazon Rank: 2911147
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Perhaps not a masterpiece of the highest order, but a very fine tale of a young man coming of age in a deeply rural and deeply traditional environment. I think it will leave most American readers with a desire to read more of the series....
amb; to her, it's a reminder of the fact that she still has a husband, and that she must behave as a married woman would, despite all. Also, she claims, when the family is reunited, the fish will be their first, celebratory meal together. But when a beggar girl, Sam-rae, sneaks into their house during a blizzard, the first thing she does is eat the stingray, and what follows is a struggle, at once sentimental and ideological, for the soul of the household.