Crystal Hana Kim: The Stone Home with Susan Choi

April 9, 2024 @The Korea Society

 

 

소설가 크리스탈 하나 김(Crystal Hana Kim, 김하나)이 4월 9일 오후 6시 30분 맨해튼 코리아소사이어티에서 두번째 소설 '스톤 홈(The Stone Home)'의 토론회를 연다. 크리스탈 하나 김은 이날 2019년 다섯번째 소설 '신뢰 연습(Trust Exercise)'으로 전미도서상(National Boodk Award)를 수상한 수잔 최(Susan Choi)의 사회로 신작에 관한 대화를 나눌 예정이다. '스톤 홈'은 1970-80년대 부산 형제복지원에서 발생한 인권유린 및 집단학살 사건에서 영감을 얻어서 쓴 소설이다.  

 

이에 앞선 4월 4일 오후 7시 브루클린하이츠의 서점 Books Are Magic(122 Montague St. Brooklyn)에선 소설가 줄리아 필립스(Julia Phillips)와 대화의 시간을 갖는다. https://www.booksaremagic.net/events/20240404

 

1987년 뉴욕 퀸즈에서 태어난 크리스탈 하나 김은 컬럼비아대와 대학원 졸업 후 헌터칼리지에서 교욱학 석사학위를 받았다. 2018년 한국전쟁을 배경으로 한 여성의 여정을 그린 소설 '당신이 나를 떠난다면(If You Leave Me)'을 출간했으며, 2022년 전미도서재단(National Book Foundation)의 35세 이하 5인(5 Under 35 Award)에 선정됐다. 현재 퀸즈칼리지의 방문 조교수로 브루클린에 살고 있다. 

 

 

Crystal Hana Kim: The Stone Home with Susan Choi

 

Tuesday, April 9, 2024 | 6:30 PM (EDT)

The Korea Society: 350 Madison Ave., 24th Fl.

 

“It is a privilege to read Crystal Hana Kim’s fiction, which both edifies and enlightens.” —Min Jin Lee

 

A hauntingly poetic family drama and coming-of-age story that reveals a dark corner of South Korean history through the eyes of a small community living in a reformatory center—a stunning work of great emotional power from the critically acclaimed author of If You Leave Me.

 

In 2011, Eunju Oh opens her door to greet a stranger: a young Korean American woman holding a familiar-looking knife—a knife Eunju hasn’t seen in thirty years, and that connects her to a place she’d desperately hoped to leave behind forever.

 

In South Korea in the 1980s, young Eunju and her mother are homeless on the street. After being captured by the police, they’re sent to live within the walls of a state-sanctioned reformatory center that claims to rehabilitate the nation’s citizens but hides a darker, more violent reality. While Eunju and her mother form a tight-knit community with the other women in the kitchen, two teenage brothers, Sangchul and Youngchul, are compelled to labor in the workshops and make increasingly desperate decisions—and all are forced down a path of survival, the repercussions of which will echo for decades to come.

 

Inspired by real events, told through alternating timelines and two intimate perspectives, The Stone Home is a deeply affecting story of a mother and daughter’s love and a pair of brothers whose bond is put to an unfathomably difficult test. Capturing a shameful period of history with breathtaking restraint and tenderness, Crystal Hana Kim weaves a lyrical exploration of the legacy of violence and the complicated psychology of power, while showcasing the extraordinary acts of devotion and friendship that can arise in the darkness.

 

In her conversation with Susan Choi, Crystal Hana Kim discusses her second novel.

 

During the event, The Stone Home will be available for purchase.

 

Crystal Hana Kim is the author of If You Leave Me, which was named one of the best books of 2018 by over a dozen publications. Kim is the recipient of the 2022 National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award and is a 2017 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize winner. Currently, she is the Visiting Assistant Professor at Queens College and a contributing editor at Apogee Journal. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her family.

 

 

About the Moderator:

Susan Choi’s first novel, The Foreign Student, won the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction.  Her second novel, American Woman, was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize.  Her third novel, A Person of Interest, was a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award. In 2010 she was named the inaugural recipient of the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award.  Her fourth novel, My Education, received a 2014 Lammy Award.  Her fifth novel, Trust Exercise, won the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction, and in 2021 she received the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award for “Flashlight.”  She serves as a trustee of PEN America and teaches in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

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[IN-STORE MONTAGUE]

Crystal Hana Kim: The Stone Home w/ Julia Phillips

 

Thursday April 4th, 2024 @ 7:00PM - 8:00PM

Books Are Magic Montague: 122 Montague Street Brooklyn, NY 11201

 

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*See Event Guidelines Below* 

This event is presented in collaboration with the Asian American Writers' Workshop. The Asian American Writers’ Workshop (AAWW) is devoted to creating, publishing, developing and disseminating creative writing by Asian Americans, and to providing an alternative literary arts space at the intersection of migration, race, and social justice. Since their founding in 1991, they have been dedicated to the belief that Asian American stories deserve to be told. At a time when migrants, women, people of color, Muslims, and LGBTQ people are specifically targeted, we offer a new countercultural public space in which to imagine a more just future. For more information about the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, visit their website at aaww.org.

 

Julia Phillips is the bestselling author of the novel Disappearing Earth, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and one of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year. Her second novel, Bear, will be published in June. 

 

Event guidelines:

All attendees are encouraged to wear a face mask at all times.

Tickets are limited to restrict capacity at our store, and each ticket will include either a copy of the featured book or a $10 Books Are Magic gift card.

Additional copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.

A signing will follow the talk.

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https://www.booksaremagic.net/events/20240404

 

 

한류를 이해하는 33가지 코드

 

 

*'한류를 이해하는 33가지 코드: BTS, 기생충, 그리고 오징어 게임을 넘어서'에 무엇이?

https://youtu.be/29auuZ2a_Ig