| House of the Winds Contributor(s): Yun, MIA (Author) |
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ISBN: 1566563054 ISBN-13: 9781566563055 Publisher: Interlink Books OUR PRICE: $20.66 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 1999 Annotation: This series is designed to bring to North American readers the once-unheard voices of writers who have achieved wide acclaim at home, but are not recognized beyond the borders of their native lands. With special emphasis on women writers, Interlink's Emerging Voices series publishes the best of the world's contemporary literature in translation or original English. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 98026467 |
| Series: Emerging Voices (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.95" H x 5.48" W x 8.35" (0.80 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - East Asian - Ethnic Orientation - Korean - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 1960s Korea. A girl stands in the middle of the sunny cabbage patch with her mother. The air is full of butterflies (the souls of little children in afternoon naps) and secrets (though they were not secrets at the time). House of the Winds is a portrait of a family whose lives have been deeply affected by the tumultuous long years of Japanese rule and the Korean War. And it is the story of one mother and one daughter. Young Wife is a magic-wand mother who tells stories of the time when tigers smoked pipes. One day her white summer blouse runs deep red, mango-red and azalea pink. Who knows from where this sudden sadness sprouted? Her youngest daughter is our guide through this world in which an American electric iron is so powerful it sets off a coup d' tat. The daughter begins to see how Korean women, descendents of the she-bear woman and the son of the king of heaven, lived in the folds of history...laughing, wailing, spirit-cajoling, poetry-writing, tear-hiding, bosom-bracing, scheming, fire-breathing. |