· Out of all the Dalkey/LTI Library of Korean Literature, Jang Eun-Jin’s No One Writes Back is dead simple to recommend. · No One Writes Back by Jang Eun-Jin – review An extraordinarily rich and moving novel about a young man's journey through South Korea with Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins. Jang Eun-jin's No One Writes Back (translated by Jung Yewon, review copy courtesy of the publisher) is the story of a young man who has been travelling aimlessly for the past three years, with only his dog, Wajo, for company. Every day, he leaves the motel he's slept at, randomly chooses a direction and sees what the day will bring/5().
Jang Eun-jin's novel No One Writes Back is a smart, tight, elegant, beautiful book that I will not soon forget. The story - not the backstory, which is revealed bit by bit, but the story itself, what happens in the "now" of the book - begins like this, after a bit of set-up. The novel No One Writes Back by Jang Eun-Jin follows the story of a young man, Jihun and his blind dog, Wajo as they travel across the country for three years, moving from one motel to the next every www.doorway.ru only significant element of his journey are his letters. If he meets someone during his travels, he offers to send them a letter but under one condition: they should write him back once. Jung Yewon is the translator of One Hundred Shadows, by Hwang www.doorway.ru is also the translator of No One Writes Back by Jang Eun-jin and one of the co-translators of A Most Ambiguous Sunday and Other Stories by Jung Young Moon, both published by Dalkey Archive as part of their Library of Korean Literature series. Her translation of Jung Young Moon's Vaseline Buddha is published by Deep.
Jang Eun-Jin (Hangul: 장은진) is a female South Korean writer. She was born in Gwangju, Korea, in , and graduated from the Department of Geography at Cheonnam National University. Her literary debut won the Joongang Daily New Writers Award, and has since published four novels and a collection of short stories. Out of all the Dalkey/LTI Library of Korean Literature, Jang Eun-Jin’s No One Writes Back is dead simple to recommend. Jang has had one book translated into English, No One Writes Back (Translated by Jung Yewon), which The Guardian reviewed as, “An extraordinarily rich and moving novel about a young man's journey through South Korea with his dog” Her subject is communication, or its absence, and the book is written as a picaresque. It is the story of a young man, mp3 player and blind dog, and their three-year goal-less journey, and who they meet on that journey.
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