Literature

A Fun Game

Park Hyang
Pages
280
Dimensions
148*210
ISBN
978-89-6545-196-9 03810
Price
13,000KRW
Date
September 2012
Contents
Short Stories
*Winner of the 5th Hyun Gin Gun Literature Award
*2012 Busan Writers Award Winner
*2012 Fine Literature Association of Korea Library Selection

Pathetic, but still a life

A Fun Game depicts loss and alienation in the helpless lives of various characters, from teenagers to middle-aged woman. Affairs and divorce, a man with cancer and a woman deserted by a man, characters in A Fun Game wander alone in a bleak society, understood by no one.

In A Fun Game, Park repeatedly delves into the solitude of modern people and the fragments of their helpless lives. Most of the stories happen within a familial setting. Readers will be led to observe the life of a modern woman and new familial relationships in the lives of characters who transgress traditional family boundaries.