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A sweeping, multi-generational tale blending fable, farce, and fantasy--a masterpiece of modern fiction perfect for fans of One Hundred Years of Solitude Whale is the English-language debut of a beloved and bestselling South Korean author, a born storyteller with a cinematic, darkly humorous, and thoroughly original perspective. A woman sells her daughter to a passing beekeeper for two jars of honey. A baby weighing fifteen pounds is born in the depths of winter but named “Girl of Spring.” A storm brings down the roof of a ramshackle restaurant to reveal a hidden fortune. These are just a few of the events that set Myeong-kwan Cheon’s beautifully crafted, wild world in motion. Whale, s...
Selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2014 International Forum on Computers, Electronics and Mechatronics (IFCEM 2014), August 27-28, 2014, Zhuhai, China
This work traces how political questions were addressed in late imperial Chinese fiction through extreme situations such as husbands and wives torn apart in periods of political upheaval and families so disrupted that incestuous encounters became inevitable.
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