Chasm of Sorrow
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• Original title : 슬픔의 틈새
• Price : 18,500KRW
• Product Dimensions :
128x188, 448pages
• Publication Date : 2025-08-15
• ISBN : 9791169813839
Book Information & Summary
written by Lee Geum-yi
CHASM OF SORROW is a colonial history of a forgotten community bound together by women.
We follow Dan-ok, an outspoken young woman, inquisitive about the world around her.
She overcomes hardship through a strong sense of duty to her family and a determined, pioneering spirit to take control of her life. Dan-ok moves with her family from Joseon in Korea to a Japanese colony, Sakhalin Island, where she is reunited with her Korean father, a conscript forced into labour by Korea’s Japanese rulers.
In this foreign land she experiences the upheavals of history firsthand. Having left home in the hope of a better life in a new world, she ends up losing her hometown and family and abandoned by her own country due to the turbulent socio-political circumstances.
In spite of becoming ‘stateless’ she resists having her life erased by a bigger history.
CHASM OF SORROW is the third novel by Lee Geum-yi that centres the lived experience of women from the Korean diaspora under Japanese rule, following CAN’T I GO INSTEAD? (Rights sold: USA, UK, Japanese, Italian, Arabic) and THE PICTURE BRIDE (Rights sold: UK, US, Germany, Italy, Russia, Japan, Thai, Arabic).
CHASM OF SORROW is a colonial history of a forgotten community bound together by women.
We follow Dan-ok, an outspoken young woman, inquisitive about the world around her.
She overcomes hardship through a strong sense of duty to her family and a determined, pioneering spirit to take control of her life. Dan-ok moves with her family from Joseon in Korea to a Japanese colony, Sakhalin Island, where she is reunited with her Korean father, a conscript forced into labour by Korea’s Japanese rulers.
In this foreign land she experiences the upheavals of history firsthand. Having left home in the hope of a better life in a new world, she ends up losing her hometown and family and abandoned by her own country due to the turbulent socio-political circumstances.
In spite of becoming ‘stateless’ she resists having her life erased by a bigger history.
CHASM OF SORROW is the third novel by Lee Geum-yi that centres the lived experience of women from the Korean diaspora under Japanese rule, following CAN’T I GO INSTEAD? (Rights sold: USA, UK, Japanese, Italian, Arabic) and THE PICTURE BRIDE (Rights sold: UK, US, Germany, Italy, Russia, Japan, Thai, Arabic).