Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood by Richard E. Kim
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(Paperback - Reprint)
- Pub. Date: June 1998
- 196pp
- Sales Rank: 14,145
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: June 1998
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Format: Paperback, 196pp
- Sales Rank: 14,145
- ISBN-13: 9780520214248
- ISBN: 0520214242
- Edition Number: 1
- Edition Description: Reprint
Synopsis
In this classic tale, Richard Kim paints seven vivid scenes from a boyhood and early adolescence in Korea at the height of the Japanese occupation, 1932 to 1945. Taking its title from the grim fact that the occupiers forced the Koreans to renounce their own names and adopt Japanese names instead, the book follows one Korean family through the Japanese occupation to the surrender of the Japanese empire. Lost Names is at once a loving memory of family and a vivid portrayal of life in a time of anguish.
New York Times Book Review
Lost Names is not a poem of hate, but a poem of love. . . .It is elegaic. It rises to moments of considerable dramatic power, but its finest moments, as when we see the cemeteries full of Koreans apologizing to their ancesotrs for having lost their names, are lyrical.
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Richard E. Kim has taught at several universities in the U.S. and, as a Fulbright Scholar, at Seoul National University in Korea. A Guggenheim Fellow, he has authored The Martyred (1964) and The Innocent (1968). He scripted and narrated several documentaries for KBS-TV in Seoul. His Lost Koreans in China and the Soviet Union, a book of photo-essays, was published in 1989.
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May 09, 2000: Kim shares the life of a young boy during the Japanese occupation not only with eloquent prose, but also as an informative historiographic account. He doesn?t provide too many details of the time, but instead he allows the reader to understand by presenting a ?personal? account. The title reveals one of the most insensitive ways the Japanese forced assimilation of the Koreans. Kim showed that the names were not crucial to the person?s inner self, but rather they were valuable as a proclamation of lineage and filial piety.
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