Kyung-sook Shin: I’ll Be Right There

Details: Thursday, June 05 , 2014 | 6:30 PM

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Event Link:   Kyung-sook Shin, the author of eighteen works including seven novels, eight story collections, and three essay collections, is one of South Korea’s most widely read and acclaimed novelists. Her best seller, Please Look After Mom, sold more than two million copies in Korea, and has been translated into more than thirty languages and sold in 34 countries. She was both the first woman and the first Korean to be honored with the Man Asian Literary Prize. She is also the recipient of the Today’s Young Artist Award from the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Hankook Ilbo Literature Prize, Hyundae Literary Award, Manhae Literature Prize, Dong-in Literature Prize, Yi Sang Literary Award, the Oh Yeongsu Literature Prize, and France’s Prix de l’Inaperçu, as well as the Ho-Am Prize in the Arts, awarded for her body of work for general achievement in Korean culture and the arts. In the last several years she has focused her energy on writing full-length novels that have solidified her position as one of Korea’s top writers. The English translation of her seventh and most recent novel, I’ll Be Right There, will be published on June 3, 2014
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Custom HTML field 2 title:   Set in 1980s South Korea amid the tremors of political revolution, I’ll Be Right There follows Jung Yoon, a highly literate, twenty-something woman, as she recounts her tragic personal history as well as those of her three intimate college friends. When Yoon receives a distressing phone call from her ex-boyfriend after eight years of separation, memories of a tumultuous youth begin to resurface, forcing her to re-live the most intense period of her life. With profound intellectual and emotional insight, she revisits the death of her beloved mother, the strong bond with her now-dying former college professor, the excitement of her first love, and the friendships forged out of a shared sense of isolation and grief.   Yoon’s formative experiences, which highlight both the fragility and force of personal connection in an era of absolute uncertainty, become immediately palpable. Shin makes the foreign and esoteric utterly familiar: her use of European literature as an interpreter of emotion and experience bridges any gaps between East and West. Love, friendship, and solitude are the same everywhere, as this book makes poignantly clear.
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Kyung-sook Shin, one of Korea’s most acclaimed writers and author of the international bestseller Please Look After Mom, has written a seventh novel, I’ll Be Right There, a coming-of-age story set in South Korea’s turbulent 1980s. Following the June 3rd release of the English translation of I’ll Be Right There, Ms Shin visits The Korea Society to discuss her life and writing, as well as her latest book.

A reception and book signing will follow.

Thursday, June 5, 2014 | 6:30 PM

The Korea Society
950 Third Avenue, 8th floor
New York, NY 10022

You may pre-order a paperback copy of the book, I’ll Be Right There, for pick-up at registration on June 5. Books will also be on sale at the program for $15.

Members - ticket: Free

Book Only: $12

Nonmembers - ticket: $20

Nonmembers Plus Book: $32

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