Young-sook Kang

Rina is a defector from a country that might be North Korea, traversing an 'empty and futile' landscape. Along the way, she is forced to work at a chemical plant, murders a few people, becomes a prostitute, runs a lucrative bar, and finds solace in a motley family of wanderers, all as disenfranchised as she. Brutal and unflinching, with elements...