Friday, June 13, 2014, 7:00 PM
Korean Cultural Service NY
460 Park Ave # 601, New York, NY 10022
KCSNY welcomes critically acclaimed novelist Kyung-sook Shin for a reading of her latest work to be published in America, I’ll Be Right There (어디선가 나를 찾는 전화벨이 울리고).
Shin, a celebrated author in Korea, became the first Korean and first woman to receive the Man Asian Literary Prize for the English translation of Please Look After Mom in 2011. In her new, highly anticipated novel, I’ll Be Right There Shin delivers an impressive, insightful story of love, friendship, and solitude of youth in the turbulent 1980’s Korea. As she does so, she bridges the gaps of East and West by using European literature as an “interpreter of emotion.” Shin will be reading and presenting her work, followed by a Q&A session with the audience. “Tender and mournful, the latest novel from best-selling South Korean novelist Shin (Please Look After Mom, 2011) considers young love and loss in an era of political ferment…Shin’s uncomplicated yet allusive narrative voice delivers another calmly affecting story, simultaneously foreign and familiar.” –Kirkus
Free admission: RSVP Required.
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