When Adam Opens His Eyes

by Jang Jung-il, Sun-Ae Hwang (Translator), Horace Jeffery Hodges (Translator)

Overview

First published in 1990, this is a sensational and highly controversial novel by one of Korea's most electrifying contemporary authors. A preposterous coming-of-age story, melding sex, death, and high school in a manner reminiscent of some perverse collision between Georges Bataille and Beverly Cleary, the narrator of this book plows through contemporaneous Korean mores with aplomb, bound for destruction, or maturity—whichever comes first.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781564789495
Publisher:	Deep Vellum Publishing
Publication date:	09/26/2013
Series:	Library of Korean Literature Series , #3
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	216 KB

About the Author

Jang Jung-il was born in 1960. Self-educated, Jang’s wide-ranging tastes led him to try his hand at various genres once he began his career as an author. Jang Jung-il is infamous—and has even been jailed—for his erotic and violent fiction. He continues to write, albeit with less controversy, given Korean society’s increasing liberality.

Sun-Ae Hwang lives in Seoul, Korea, and has a doctorate in literature. 

Horace Jeffery Hodges, born in the US, lives in Seoul. He has a PhD in history from UC Berkeley, and works as a professor and an editor.

Table of Contents

First published in 1990, this is a sensational and highly controversial novel by one of Korea's most electrifying contemporary authors, which plows through contemporaneous Korean mores with aplomb.

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