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- Author: Kim Joo-Young
- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- ISBN-10: 1564789594
- ISBN-13: 9781564789594
- Format: 14 x 21.6 x 1.1 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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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 kitchen doorjamb; 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.
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- Author: Kim Joo-Young
- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- ISBN-10: 1564789594
- ISBN-13: 9781564789594
- Format: 14 x 21.6 x 1.1 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
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 kitchen doorjamb; 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.
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