Who Ate Up All the Shinga?

An Autobiographical Novel

By: Wan-suh Park, Young-nan Yu (Translator), Stephen Epstein (Translator)

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Hardcover | 15 July 2009 | Edition Number 1

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Park Wan-suh is a best-selling and award-winning writer whose work has been widely translated and published throughout the world. Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is an extraordinary account of her experiences growing up during the Japanese occupation of Korea and the Korean War, a time of great oppression, deprivation, and social and political instability.

Park Wan-suh was born in 1931 in a small village near Kaesong, a protected hamlet of no more than twenty families. Park was raised believing that "no matter how many hills and brooks you crossed, the whole world was Korea and everyone in it was Korean." But then the tendrils of the Japanese occupation, which had already worked their way through much of Korean society before her birth, began to encroach on Park's idyll, complicating her day-to-day life.

With acerbic wit and brilliant insight, Park describes the characters and events that came to shape her young life, portraying the pervasive ways in which collaboration, assimilation, and resistance intertwined within the Korean social fabric before the outbreak of war. Most absorbing is Park's portrait of her mother, a sharp and resourceful widow who both resisted and conformed to stricture, becoming an enigmatic role model for her struggling daughter. Balancing period detail with universal themes, Park weaves a captivating tale that charms, moves, and wholly engrosses.

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Lyrical in its descriptions of village life, this gripping book is written with a confessional chattiness that contrasts with the hardships it describes. Financial Times Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is essential reading. -- Joanna K. Elfving-Hwang List: Books from Korea Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is clearly a volume that should be added to the growing staple of works taughts in Korean literature, culture, and history courses. Journal of Asian Studies Though it feels rather like a memoir, the novel is an entertaining and sometimes heart-wrenching read as Park's brilliant use of language, as well as genuine depiction of its characters shine from the beginning to the end. Korea Herald Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is a pleasure not only to read but to behold. Let us hope that although the author is no longer with us physically, her spiritual presence will be maintained through other excellent translations of her works. -- Bruce Fulton Korean Quarterly A deeply moving, warm personal tale. Korea.net

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Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
A Note on Kinship Terms 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Notes
Glossary
A Note on Readers' Reactions to Aaydan
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Who Ate Up All the Shinga?

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