[Book Review] In ‘Future of Silence,’ Korean women’s voices resound across generations
Feb 24, 2022
Oh Jung-hee is renowned for her terse, intense stories featuring women in deeply dysfunctional situations. In her 1983 “Wayfarer,” Hye-ja is a woman who is recently discharged from a mental hospital for a fatal act of self-defense. Though she has been betrayed and abandoned by her family, her social circle, and the legal system, she persists in seeking spiritual and financial rebirth. Unearthing ...