Who Ate Up All the Shinga?

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

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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,…

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Park Wan-suh is perhaps postwar fiction's foremost chronicler of women’s lives. Of the many translations of her novels and short stories, I think this book is the best to start with.

A mixture of autobiography with fictional and essay-like elements, it covers the first twenty years of her life, from her early years in the countryside outside the city of Gaeseong to her family’s move to Seoul and the outbreak of the Korean War.

There is much to learn about modern Korea from this unique generation of writers as they experienced life during the Japanese occupation, had clear memories of…

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