Seopyeonje: The Southerners' Songs

by Yi Chung-Jun and Yi Chong-Jun

Yi Chung-jun's haunting and disturbing novel is set in the 1950s after the Korean War in the remote south of the country, home of the traditional art of pansori singing, a moving and plangently beautiful style of folk song performed by traveling musicians. The linked stories center on a family of itinerant singers: a boy and his stepfather and half-sister. Believing that his stepfather caused his mother's death, the boy cannot live with the murderous...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0720613590
• ISBN13: 9780720613599
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.6"