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Book review: Cheon Myeong-kwan’s Whale of a tale of one woman’s epic reinvention
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South Korean novelist Cheon Myeong-kwan is the author of Whale, which won the 10th Munhakdongne Novel Award in 2004.
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By Cheon Myeong-kwan, translated by Kim Chi-young
Fiction/Europa Editions/Paperback/368 pages/$30.24/Books Kinokuniya
4 stars
Bewitched at the sight of a blue whale cresting above the ocean, Geumbok has a glint in her eye. She catches a vision of herself leaving her meagre village life behind for good in pursuit of bigger, better things.
