Drifting house
By: Krys Lee
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780571276189
Subjects: Social conditions; Koreans; Fiction; Cultural assimilation; Erzählung; Amerikanisches Englisch
Description: Spanning Korea and the United States, from the postwar era to contemporary times, Krys Lee's stunning fiction debut, Drifting House, illuminates a people torn between the traumas of their collective past and the indignities and sorrows of their present. In the title story, children escaping famine in North Korea are forced to make unthinkable sacrifices to survive. The tales set in America reveal the immigrants' unmoored existence, playing out in cramped apartments and Koreatown strip malls, from the abandoned wife in 'A Temporary Marriage' who enters into a sham marriage to find her kidnapped daughter to the makeshift family in 'At the Edge of the World' which is fractured when a shaman from the old country moves in next door.
Table of contents: title: A temporary marriage; title: At the edge of the world; title: The pastor's son; title: The goose father; title: The salaryman; title: Drifting house; title: A small sorrow; title: The believer; title: Beautiful women.