© Columbia University Press
Who Ate Up All the Shinga?: An Autobiographical Novel
July, 2009
Cloth, 264 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14898-6
$24.50
/ £17.00
"Lyrical in its descriptions of village life, this gripping book is written with a confessional chattiness that contrasts with the hardships it describes." — Financial Times
"Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is essential reading." — Joanna K. Elfving-Hwang, List: Books from Korea
"Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is clearly a volume that should be added to the growing staple of works taughts in Korean literature, culture, and history courses." — Jin-Kyung Lee, Journal of Asian StudiesUniversity of California, San Diego
"Though it feels rather like a memoir, the novel is an entertaining and sometimes heart-wrenching read as Park’s brilliant use of language, as well as genuine depiction of its characters shine from the beginning to the end." — Korea Herald
"Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is a pleasure not only to read but to behold. Let us hope that although the author is no longer with us physically, her spiritual presence will be maintained through other excellent translations of her works." — Bruce Fulton, Korean Quarterly
"Park Wan-suh is important for the ways in which her writing is at once popular (nearly all her works are best-sellers) and canonical. She is widely discussed in Korean academia, and she has become the subject of a number of dissertations. While this is also the case for many male writers, Park Wan-suh may have combined the two levels more successfully than any other novelist. Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is the embodiment of one of these works." — Theodore Hughes, Columbia University
"Park Wan-suh is a household name in Korea and draws standing-room-only crowds in North American cities with substantial Korean populations. Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is a major work, being both a rare account of a woman coming of age in colonial Korea and the first book-length memoir in English by a Korean writer resident in and writing about Korea." — Bruce Fulton, University of British Columbia, and cotranslator of There a Petal Silently Falls: Three Stories by Ch'oe Yun