Lost Names – Scenes from a Korean Boyhood - Softcover

Kim, Richard E

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520214242 ISBN 13: 9780520214248

Publisher: University of California Press, 1998

Synopsis

In this classic tale, Richard Kim paints seven vivid scenes from a boyhood and early adolescence in Korea at the height of the Japanese occupation, 1932 - 1945. Taking its title from the grim fact that the occupiers forced the Koreans to renounce their own names and adopt Japanese names instead, the book follows one Korean family through the Japanese occupation to the surrender of the Japanese Empire.

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Review:

"This memorable document of courage and endurance is written with clarity and vigor, pierced with moments of poignant love and the blazing resentment of the young."--"Saturday Review

About the Author:

Richard E. Kim (1932 - 2009) was a celebrated novelist, essayist, documentary filmmaker, and professor of literature at University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Syracuse University, San Diego State University, and at Seoul National University. He was founder and president of Trans-Lit Agency, a literary agency devoted to establishing international copyright for works being published in Korea. His books include The Martyred (nominated for the National Book Award), The Innocent , and Lost Koreans in China and the Soviet Union: Photo Essays . He was recipient of the Ford Foundation Foreign Area Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellowship.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0520214242
• ISBN 13: 9780520214248
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208