Forgotten Country
$24.83
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
25 August 2020
Summary
‘A richly emotional portrait of a family that had me spellbound from page one’ Cheryl Strayed, bestselling author of Wild
The night before Janie’s sister, Hannah, is born, her grandmother tells her a story: Since the Japanese occupation of Korea, their family has lost a daughter in every generation, and Janie is told to keep Hannah safe.
Years later, when Hannah cuts all ties and disappears, Janie goes to find her. It is the start of a journey that will…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349144054 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349144052 |
| Author: | Catherine Chung |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 25 August 2020 |
| Weight: | 240g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 24mm |
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Critics Review
In Forgotten Country, Catherine Chung tells an inexpressibly beautiful story about a Korean family with a complex history… The story builds quietly, meticulously, and Chung does a masterful job of weaving the past with the present, incorporating mythology and memory in ways that both captivate and haunt. If you read one novel this spring, let it be Forgotten Country - Roxane Gay, at The Rumpus
Luminous and surprising…. Chung brings a gentle, special gravity to this Korean family’s tale of endurance… Her voice is fresh, her material rich, and Forgotten Country is an impressive, memorable debut - San Francisco ChronicleIn her gorgeous debut, Chung offers a heartbreaking story about sisters, family, and keeping traditions alive - People magazineChung indelibly portays a Korea viciously divided, but ever bound to history, myth, and hope - O, The Oprah Magazine[An]… unflinchingly honest examination of grief, anger, familial obligation, and love - The New YorkerHeartbreaking and redemptive - Boston GlobeA] beautiful debut novel…woven with tender reflections, sharp renderings of isolation, and beautiful prose….Chung simultaneously shines light on the violence of Korean history, the chill of American xenophobia, and the impossibility of home in either country - Publishers Weekly, starred reviewAbout The Author
Catherine Chung
Catherine Chung is the author of The Tenth Muse and Forgotten Country, for which she won an Honorable Mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award. She has been a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, a Granta New Voice and a Director’s Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and was the recipient of a Dorthy Sargent Rosenberg Prize in poetry. She has a degree in mathematics from the University of Chicago, and worked at a think tank in Santa Monica before receiving her MFA from Cornell University. She has published work in the New York Times and Granta, and is a fiction editor at Guernica Magazine. She lives in New York City.
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