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I Went to See My Father : a Novel by Kyung-Sook Shin, Anton Hur (translation) is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is I Went to See My Father : a Novel about?

An instant bestseller in Korea & the follow up to the international bestseller, Please Look After Mom; centering on a woman’s efforts to reconnect with her aging father, uncovering long-held family secrets. Two years after losing her daughter in a tragic accident, Hon finally returns to her home in the countryside to take care of her father. At first, her father only appears withdrawn & fragile, an aging man, awkward but kind around his own daughter. Then, after stumbling upon a chest of letters, Hon discovers the truth of her father’s past & reconstructs her own family history. Consumed with her own grief, Hon had been blind to her father’s vulnerability & her family’s fragility. Unraveling secret after secret & thanks to conversations with loving family & friends, Hon grows closer to her father, who proves to be more complex than she ever gave him credit for. After living through one of the most tumultuous times in Korean history, her father’s life was once vibrant & ambitious, but spiraled during the postwar years. Now, after years of emotional isolation, Hon learns the whole truth, from her father’s affair & involvement in a religious sect, to the dynamic lives of her own sibli

Who reads I Went to See My Father : a Novel?

Author

Kyung-Sook Shin, Anton Hur (translation)

Publisher

Astra Publishing House

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9781662601378

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction