Rina

by Kang Young-sook

Book Overview

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 a solace in a motley family of wanderers all as disenfranchised as she. Brutal and unflinching, with elements of the mythic and grotesque interspersed with hard-edged realism, Rina is a pioneering work of Korean...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628971150
• ISBN13: 9781628971156
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 7.9"