The Human Jungle
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Human Jungle
By (Author) Cho Chongnae
Translated by Bruce Fulton
Translated by Ju-Chan Fulton
Chin Music Press
Broken Levee Books
4th October 2016
United States
Classifications
General
Fiction
Classic fiction: general and literary
895.734
Physical Properties
Paperback
432
Width 139mm, Height 190mm, Spine 28mm
652g
Description
Equal parts muckraking novel, transnational love story, and socially engaged panorama, Cho Chongnaes The Human Jungle portrays China on the verge of becoming the worlds dominant economic force.
Against a backdrop of rapidly morphing urban landscapes, readers meet migrant workers, Korean manufacturers out to save a few bucks, high-flying venture capitalists, street thugs, and shakedown artists. The picture of China that emerges is at turns unsettling, awe-inspiring, and heart-breaking. Chongnae deftly portrays a giant awakening to its own raw, volatile, and often uncontrollable power.
Translators Bruce Fulton and Ju-Chan Fulton have condensed three of Chongnaes Korean novels, each of which sold more than one million copies in South Korea, into this single English-language edition.
Cho Chongnae is one of Koreas most important living writers. He is best known for a trio of massive historical novels: the ten-volume Taebaek Mountains (1989), the twelve-volume Arirang (1995), and the ten-volume Han River (2002). Cho lives in Seoul, South Korea.
Bruce Fulton and Ju-Chan Fulton are the translators of numerous volumes of modern Korean fiction, including the award-winning womens anthologies Words of Farewell and Wayfarer, and, with Marshall R. Pihl, Land of Exile: Contemporary Korean Fiction. They have received two National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowships, including the first ever given for a translation from the Korean language, and the first residency at the Banff International Literary Translation Centre awarded to translators from any Asian language. Bruce Fulton is the inaugural holder of the Young-Bin Min Chair in Korean Literature and Literary Translation at the University of British Columbia.
Author Bio
Chongnae Cho: Cho Chongnae is one of Korea's most important living writers. He is best known for a trio of massive historical novels: the 10-volume T'aebaek Mountains (1989), the 12-volume Arirang (1995), and the 10-volume Han River (2002).
