The Sound of Thunder

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The Sound of Thunder(Chondung Sori) by Kim Joo-young was published in 1986 and immediately met with an enthusiastic reception from the Korean reading public. The author was born in 1939 in a small village in North Kyongsang-do. He entered Sorabol College in 1959 and graduated several years later after interrupting his studies to do military service... A progressively broader readership took note of the artistic talents of Kim Joo-young in the late 1970s. In 1982 his reputation was further enhanced when he was honored with a coveted Prize for Literary Prose... The novel here presented in translation, The Sound of Thunder (Chondung Sori), is a story of homelessness. Set in the bedlam of the Korean War, the book probes beneath the surface of historical stereotypes to recapture the tragedy of partition from the perspective of a woman trapped by coincidence between the two warring camps... It is a realistic tale of resilience and survival against great odds and in the face of terrible... Tovább

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The Sound of Thunder(Chondung Sori) by Kim Joo-young was published in 1986 and immediately met with an enthusiastic reception from the Korean reading public. The author was born in 1939 in a small village in North Kyongsang-do. He entered Sorabol College in 1959 and graduated several years later after interrupting his studies to do military service... A progressively broader readership took note of the artistic talents of Kim Joo-young in the late 1970s. In 1982 his reputation was further enhanced when he was honored with a coveted Prize for Literary Prose... The novel here presented in translation, The Sound of Thunder (Chondung Sori), is a story of homelessness. Set in the bedlam of the Korean War, the book probes beneath the surface of historical stereotypes to recapture the tragedy of partition from the perspective of a woman trapped by coincidence between the two warring camps... It is a realistic tale of resilience and survival against great odds and in the face of terrible moral ambiguities. The author marks how a young widow is torn between the heavy burdens imposed on her by traditional Confucian imperatives of decorum, by unchosen motherhood, by ineluctable sexual passions, by all the insufferable visages of a cruel fate, and not least by the pointless guilt evoked by one insoluble dilemma after another... Vissza