Grandmother Judy: Park Wansuh's Best 10 Short Stories 쥬디 할머니
Grandmother Judy: Park Wansuh's Best 10 Short Stories 쥬디 할머니
"Astonishing twists that catch you off guard, a voice that pierces through the times, and the wonder of Park Wansuh's short fiction that reveals something new with every reading."
To mark the 15th anniversary of the passing of the master writer Park Wansuh, 31 of Korea's leading novelists selected the 10 best Park Wansuh short stories.
A single volume that brings together the deepest human truths reached by Park Wansuh's short fiction.
To commemorate the 15th anniversary of the passing of writer Park Wansuh, a deep root that has sustained Korean literature and a great treetop that has continued to grow across generations, Munhakdongne presents Grandmother Judy - The 10 Best Park Wansuh Short Stories Loved by Novelists. Since first making her name in the literary world in 1970, Park Wansuh has continued to receive immense love from readers with remarkable vitality through masterpieces such as the novels The Naked Tree, Who Ate Up All the Shinga?, That Man's House, and A Mirage, as well as essay collections such as Even If It Is a Truth as Small as a Grain of Sand, Please Say Just One Word, and If I Could Only Become a Traveler. Life Pattern Korea. Even while writing novels, which require no short amount of time, and essays, which must contain part of the life one has lived through, she continued to publish short stories with astonishing energy.
Grandmother Judy is a book planned to shed new light on the outstanding achievements of Park Wansuh's short fiction. From among the 97 short stories included in The Complete Collection of Park Wansuh's Short Stories (7 volumes, Munhakdongne, 2013), 31 of Korea's leading novelists were asked to recommend two or three of the finest works, and the final 10 stories were selected and gathered in this volume. Along with immortal masterpieces still widely discussed and read today, such as "Stolen Poverty" and "My Very Last Possession," the book also includes a total of 10 stories such as the unexpectedly striking works "Grandmother Judy," "Is It Easy to Take Care of a Child?," and "The Heaviest Dentures in the World," which were less widely known before but remain worthy of attention today. Life Pattern Korea. This volume offers both the familiar classics and the rediscovered surprises of Park Wansuh's short fiction in one book.
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Publisher: 문학동네 Munhakdongne (2026)
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