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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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From Wonso Pond

From Wonso Pond

Kyong-Ae, Kang
Perry, Samuel

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General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1558616012
ISBN13: 9781558616011
Publisher: Feminist Press
Published: Oct 1 2009
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

A colonial-period Korean novel, through the eyes of its working-class heroes.


A classic revolutionary novel of the 1930s and the first complete work written by a woman before the Korean War to be published in English, From Wonso Pond transforms the love triangle between three protagonists into a revealing portrait of the living conditions that led to modern Korea, both North and South.

A fatherless young girl now poised to become the victim of [the landlord's] lecherous fangs and paws, begins one of the original newspaper teasers describing From Wonso Pond and the fate of its heroine, Sonbi. In a plot rich with Dickensian overtones, the novel paints a vivid picture of life in what is now North Korea through the eyes of Sonbi, her childhood neighbor, Ch'otchae, and a restless law student, Sinch'ol, as they journey separately from a small, impoverished village ruled by the lecherous land baron to the port city of Inch'on.

But life is hardly easier there, as Sonbi wears herself out boiling silk threads twelve hours a day while Ch'otchae and Sinch'ol load rice on the docks. All three become involved with underground activists, fighting the oppression of country and city, as well as their Japanese colonial rulers.

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