{"product_id":"who-ate-up-all-the-shinga-an-autobiographical-novel-9780231148993","title":"Who Ate Up All the Shinga?: An Autobiographical Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003ePark Wan-suh is a best-selling and award-winning writer whose work has been widely translated and published throughout the world. \u003ci\u003eWho Ate Up All the Shinga?\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePark 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePark Wan-suh broke into Korea's literary scene in the 1970s and in 1981 received the prestigious Yi Sang award for her novel \u003ci\u003eMother's Stake\u003c\/i\u003e. Her prolific career includes more than 150 short stories and novellas and close to twenty novels, many of which have topped best-seller lists and have been adapted for the screen. Her works in translation include \u003ci\u003eMy Very Last Possession\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Naked Tree\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYu Young-nan is a freelance translator living in Seoul. She has translated five Korean novels into English, including Park Wan-suh's \u003ci\u003eThe Naked Tree\u003c\/i\u003e and Yom Sang-seop's \u003ci\u003eThree Generations\u003c\/i\u003e. Yu was awarded the Daesan Literature Prize for her translation of Yi In-hwa's \u003ci\u003eEverlasting Empire\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStephen J. Epstein is the director of the Asian Studies Programme at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. His research focuses on contemporary Korean literature and society, and he is currently working on a book exploring Korean national identity in relation to globalization. He has also published several translations of Korean and Indonesian fiction.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50671581626642,"sku":"9780231148993","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c8f58aeb-8540-4ead-892b-2426c1fe67c1.jpg?v=1733804501","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/who-ate-up-all-the-shinga-an-autobiographical-novel-9780231148993","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}