Years and Years

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By Jungeun Hwang

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Three women - the old mother and her two daughters - contemplate their family life and their bottled-up feelings through the novel's placating yet oddly unnerving prose. Years and Years is divided into four large chapters. The first chapter unravels from the perspective of Sejin, the... Read More

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Years and Years

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Years and Years

Description

Three women - the old mother and her two daughters - contemplate their family life and their bottled-up feelings through the novel's placating yet oddly unnerving prose.

Years and Years is divided into four large chapters. The first chapter unravels from the perspective of Sejin, the younger daughter; the second from that of Youngjin, the older daughter; the third from the mother's perspective; and the fourth returns to Sejin's viewpoint.

Throughout the course of the novel, a number of themes are developed, including discussions on interracial marriage, different forms of family, and sexual minorities. Circumstances and history forced the mother to a life of obedience; familial obligations and financial hardship forced Youngjin to give up her dreams to support the family; and the reality of her culture forced Sejin to remain in the closet.

All the while, these three women, while empathising with each other, seem entrapped in the cycle of forcing each other to further succumb.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781960385000

Publisher: Open Letter

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 18 June 2024

Country: United States

Imprint: Open Letter

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

Translated by Janet Hong

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 200

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Fiction General Fiction Jungeun Hwang Literary Fiction

About the Author

Born in 1976, Jungeun Hwang is one of the bright young things of Korean literature, having published two collections of short stories and three novels to date. One Hundred Shadows (2010), her first novel, was both a critical and commercial success; its mix of oblique fantasy, hard-edge social critique, and offbeat romance garnered the Hankook Ilbo Literary Award and the Korean Booksellers' Award.

Janet Hongis awriter and translator based in Vancouver, Canada. She received the 2018 TAFirst Translation Prize and the 2018 LTI Korea Translation Award for her translation of HanYujoo'sThe Impossible Fairy Tale. She's a two-time winner of theHarveyAward forBest International Book for her translations ofKeum Suk Gendry-Kim'sGrassand Yeong-shinMa'sMoms.Otherrecent translations includeHa Seong-nan'sBluebeard's First Wife(selectedasPublishers Weekly's 10 Best Books of 2020) and Kwon Yeo-sun'sLemon. She is currently theKorean prose mentor for ALTA's Emerging Translator Mentorship Program.