Description
Offers a poignant first-hand account of Korea's turbulent modern history
Serves as an intimate record of the Korean people's struggle for democracy and peace
Author: Jeon Seung-Hee, Kim Dae-Jung
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 07/02/2018
Pages: 934
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.48lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 1.90d
ISBN13: 9789811076220
ISBN10: 9811076227
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | World | Asian
- History | Asia | Korea
- Social Science | General
About the Author
Often called Nelson Mandela of Asia, Kim Dae-jung (1924 - 2009) was the eighth President of South Korea (1998-2003) and was awarded the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his role in the advancement of peace and human rights in the Korean Peninsula and around the world.
Seung-hee Jeon is one of the leading contemporary translators of Korean literature as well as a literary scholar and critic. Her translations include the 2016 Man Booker Prize-winning novelist Han Kang's Convalescence (2013) and Bang Hyeon-seok's novel, Time to Eat Lobster (2016), which was selected for "75 Notable Translations of the Year" by World Literature Today. She has been honored with a Fulbright Grant, a Korea Foundation Fellowship, and two Daesan Foundation Translation grants (2011 and 2016). She is a lecturer at Boston College in Cambridge, Massachusetts.