Clay Walls

A landmark modern classic about the Korean American immigrant experience and the dawn of Los Angeles’s Koreatown

A Penguin Classic

Kim Ronyoung (Gloria Hahn, 1926–1987) tells the story of Haesu and Chun, immigrants who fled Japanese-occupied Korea for Los Angeles in the decade prior to World War II, and their American-born children. First published in 1986,

A propos de l'auteur

Kim Ronyoung was the pen name of Gloria Hahn (1926–1987), a Korean American writer born and raised in Los Angeles’s Koreatown. After her children graduated, Kim earned a BA in Far Eastern art and culture at San Francisco State University. She was a docent at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco and wrote many poems, short stories and essays. Her first and only novel, Clay Walls, was the first major novel focusing on the experiences of Korean immigrants and Korean Americans in the United States. It was published in 1987, shortly before her death. Kim passed away on February 3 1987, at the age of sixty, after a lengthy battle with breast cancer.David Cho is director of multicultural development at Wheaton College and specializes in late-nineteenth- to twentieth-century American literature, American ethnic literature and Asian Pacific American literature.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Kim Ronyoung, David Cho, David S. Cho, Kim Ronyoung
• Collaboration: David Cho (Introduction), Cho David S. (Introduction)
• Edition: Penguin Books USA
• Contenu: Livre
• Forme du produit: Livre de poche
• Date de parution: 10.09.2024
• Catégorie: Littérature > Littérature (récits)
• EAN: 9780143138242
• ISBN: 978-0-14-313824-2
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Dimensions (emballage): 12,8 x 19,5 x 1,7 cm
• Catégories: Los Angeles, Historical fiction, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration, South Korea, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, FICTION / World Literature / American / 20th Century, FICTION / World Literature / Korea, Narrative theme: Diversity, equality, inclusion, FICTION / Diversity & Multicultural, FICTION / Asian American & Pacific Islander