Global Oriental is pleased to announce publication of the English translation of Part I (in three volumes) of Pak Kyung-ni’s Land (T’oji). Originally published in five parts, the work is widely regarded as a masterpiece of Korean literature and has achieved unprecedented popularity in Korea. The epic follows the fortunes and misfortunes of several generations of villagers of a traditional farming community, and at the same time chronicles Korea’s tumultuous history from 1897 to 1945. Part I, which is a self-contained story and considered the most powerful example of her writing, deals with the first ten years of the Ch’oe farming household and opens with the village celebration of the Harvest Moon Festival.
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"Park Kyong-nii s among Korea's finest living writers and her epic novel "Land (T'oji)" is widely esteemed by her compatriots as a monument of contemporary Korean literature... Why has "Land" been so consistently popular, selling more than one million copies since the first installment appeared in 1969? The main reasons are artistic and moral. Beyond her great talent as a creative writer, Park Kyong-ni in "Land" unobtrusively espouses her own vision of natural justice and of the dignity of the humble...Park Kyong-ni manages to address a spectrum of today's timely issues, not least that of the public status of women in a society which long limited female voices to the private sphere." -- Chun Kyung-Ja, Harvard University, "Korean Studies Review"
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Many Park, Kyong-Ni fans who bought this book through this amazon.com, write some reviews please!! I read this novel just in Korean, my mother-tongue so I want to know to death how many foreigners read this book in English. Wasn't it intriguing and touching? I love this novel so much, but love much more the second volume, which was not translated into English yet, sadly...
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