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This Burns My Heart : A Novel by Samuel Park (2012, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSimon & Schuster
ISBN-101439199620
ISBN-139781439199626
eBay Product ID (ePID)109026074
Product Key Features
Book TitleThis Burns My Heart : a Novel
Number of Pages336 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2012
TopicPsychological, Cultural Heritage, Family Life, Romance / General, Historical
GenreFiction
AuthorSamuel Park
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight12.5 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition22
Reviews"Memorable . . . Atmospheric and exuberantly filmic . . . a simple but visceral romance in a refreshing Korean setting." - The Miami Herald, " This Burns My Heart is quietly stunning--a soft, fierce story that lingers in the mind. Samuel Park is a deft and elegant writer; this is a very exciting debut." --Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife, Vivid…atmospheric . . . Park's descriptions of antigovernment clashes and the martyrdom of a 12-year-old boy, in particular, provide eerily prescient reverberations of recent clashes in Syria. - Boston Globe, This Burns My Heart is a delicate yet powerful story of love, loss, and endurance. The emotional world of the heroine, Soo-Ja, is beautifully realized; I found myself caught up in her dramas from start to finish. Sarah Waters, author of The Little Stranger and Fingersmith, "Writing prose with the beauty of poetry, Samuel Park traces a young woman's journey to hard-won maturity, alongside the meteoric rise of post-war Korea, in a novel which shines with eloquence and wisdom." -David Henry Hwang, Tony-Award winning author of M. Butterfly, "Park does a good job of bringing the rapidly changing South Korea of the 1960s alive. As cities sprout from beanfields and rickshaws give way to Kias, the world around Soo-Ja and her family is changing at a frightening speed. . . . I especially recommend this novel to readers who were intrigued (as was I) by Lisa See's Dreams of Joy , set in postwar China. The contrast is fascinating." -- The Christian Science Monitor, "A vivid and involving novel . . . Park portrays, with penetrating compassion, individuals trapped in soul-crushing, sexist traditions . . . Smart, affecting, and unabashedly melodramatic, Park's novel of adversity, moral clarity, and love is consuming and cathartic." -Booklist, "Park does a good job of bringing the rapidly changing South Korea of the 1960s alive. As cities sprout from beanfields and rickshaws give way to Kias, the world around Soo-Ja and her family is changing at a frightening speed. . . . I especially recommend this novel to readers who were intrigued (as was I) by Lisa See's Dreams of Joy , set in postwar China. The contrast is fascinating." - The Christian Science Monitor, An understatedly brilliant tale . . . Through Soo-Jas eyes, Park beautifully evokes 1960s war-torn South Korea. Audrey Magazine, " This Burns My Heart is a delicate yet powerful story of love, loss, and endurance. The emotional world of the heroine, Soo-Ja, is beautifully realized; I found myself caught up in her dramas from start to finish, and was reluctant to part with her at the novel's close. A lovely, romantic, haunting book." -Sarah Waters, author of The Little Stranger , Fingersmith , and Tipping the Velvet, " This Burns My Heart is a delicate yet powerful story of love, loss, and endurance. The emotional world of the heroine, Soo-Ja, is beautifully realized; I found myself caught up in her dramas from start to finish." --Sarah Waters, author of The Little Stranger and Fingersmith, "Extraordinary . . . A page-turner of a book . . . South Korea provides not only the backdrop of Soo-Ja's story, but also the context for Park's novel, which spans the decades after the Korean War to the beginning of the country's economic boom. In a sense, Soo-Ja's story parallels South Korea's development from a poor, struggling state to a gleaming Asian tiger." - Chicago Tribune, "An understatedly brilliant tale . . . Through Soo-Ja's eyes, Park beautifully evokes 1960s war-torn South Korea." -- Audrey Magazine, Park does a good job of bringing the rapidly changing South Korea of the 1960s alive. As cities sprout from beanfields and rickshaws give way to Kias, the world around Soo-Ja and her family is changing at a frightening speed. . . . I especially recommend this novel to readers who were intrigued (as was I) by Lisa See's Dreams of Joy , set in postwar China. The contrast is fascinating. - The Christian Science Monitor, This Burns My Heart is quietly stunning-a soft, fierce story that lingers in the mind. Samuel Park is a deft and elegant writer; this is a very exciting debut. -Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife, "Writing prose with the beauty of poetry, Samuel Park traces a young woman's journey to hard-won maturity, alongside the meteoric rise of post-war Korea, in a novel which shines with eloquence and wisdom." --David Henry Hwang, Tony-Award winning author of M. Butterfly, "Vivid...atmospheric . . . Park's descriptions of antigovernment clashes and the martyrdom of a 12-year-old boy, in particular, provide eerily prescient reverberations of recent clashes in Syria." -- Boston Globe, " This Burns My Heart is quietly stunning-a soft, fierce story that lingers in the mind. Samuel Park is a deft and elegant writer; this is a very exciting debut." -Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife, "Vivid…atmospheric . . . Park's descriptions of antigovernment clashes and the martyrdom of a 12-year-old boy, in particular, provide eerily prescient reverberations of recent clashes in Syria." - Boston Globe, Vividatmospheric . . . Parks descriptions of antigovernment clashes and the martyrdom of a 12-year-old boy, in particular, provide eerily prescient reverberations of recent clashes in Syria. Boston Globe, Extraordinary . . . A page-turner of a book . . . South Korea provides not only the backdrop of Soo-Jas story, but also the context for Parks novel, which spans the decades after the Korean War to the beginning of the countrys economic boom. In a sense, Soo-Jas story parallels South Koreas development from a poor, struggling state to a gleaming Asian tiger. Chicago Tribune, Park does a good job of bringing the rapidly changing South Korea of the 1960s alive. As cities sprout from beanfields and rickshaws give way to Kias, the world around Soo-Ja and her family is changing at a frightening speed. . . . I especially recommend this novel to readers who were intrigued (as was I) by Lisa Sees Dreams of Joy , set in postwar China. The contrast is fascinating. The Christian Science Monitor, An understatedly brilliant tale . . . Through Soo-Ja's eyes, Park beautifully evokes 1960s war-torn South Korea. - Audrey Magazine, " This Burns My Heart is quietly stunning-a soft, fierce story that lingers in the mind. Samuel Park is a deft and elegant writer; this is a very exciting debut." -Audrey Niffenegger, New York Times bestselling author of The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry, This Burns My Heart is quietly stunninga soft, fierce story that lingers in the mind. Samuel Park is a deft and elegant writer; this is a very exciting debut. Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Travelers Wife, Writing prose with the beauty of poetry, Samuel Park traces a young woman's journey to hard-won maturity, alongside the meteoric rise of post-war Korea, in a novel which shines with eloquence and wisdom. David Henry Hwang, Tony-Award winning author of M. Butterfly, "Captivating . . . Park's novel can be read as a contemplation of loss and the angst of unrequited love, much like Dr. Zhivago . . . First-rate literary effort." - Kirkus Reviews, " This Burns My Heart is a delicate yet powerful story of love, loss, and endurance. The emotional world of the heroine, Soo-Ja, is beautifully realized; I found myself caught up in her dramas from start to finish." -Sarah Waters, author of The Little Stranger and Fingersmith, Memorable . . . Atmospheric and exuberantly filmic . . . a simple but visceral romance in a refreshing Korean setting. The Miami Herald, "An understatedly brilliant tale . . . Through Soo-Ja's eyes, Park beautifully evokes 1960s war-torn South Korea." - Audrey Magazine, "[A] harrowing, emotionally dense debut . . . set to the music of sensuous prose . . . like all good love stories, it lets go of the ambiguity it's built when the time is right. The path is long and surprising, the drama is high, there's pain involved, and the twists and turns are reliably, recognizably and realistically unpredictable." -Patrick Somerville, TimeOut Chicago, "Extraordinary . . . A page-turner of a book . . . South Korea provides not only the backdrop of Soo-Ja's story, but also the context for Park's novel, which spans the decades after the Korean War to the beginning of the country's economic boom. In a sense, Soo-Ja's story parallels South Korea's development from a poor, struggling state to a gleaming Asian tiger." -- Chicago Tribune, " This Burns My Heart never loses touch with the human passion at the core of its epic romance. Writing prose with the beauty of poetry, Samuel Park traces a young woman's journey to hard-won maturity, alongside the meteoric rise of post-war Korea, in a novel which shines with eloquence and wisdom." -David Henry Hwang, Tony-Award winning author of M. Butterfly, "Samuel Park's astonishing novel, This Burns My Heart , provides mesmerizing perspective into the life of a Korean wife and lover-intricate and intimate as only a woman's secret life can be." -Jenna Blum, New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Save Us and The Stormchasers, "An unflappable heroine anchors Park's epic postKorean War love story. . . . But this is no quiet tale of yearning: the plot kicks in with an unexpected fierceness, and the ensuing action-a kidnapping, fist fights, blackmail-make for a dramatic, suck-you-in chronicle of a thrilling love affair." -Publishers Weekly, "Vivid...atmospheric . . . Park's descriptions of antigovernment clashes and the martyrdom of a 12-year-old boy, in particular, provide eerily prescient reverberations of recent clashes in Syria." - Boston Globe, "Memorable . . . Atmospheric and exuberantly filmic . . . a simple but visceral romance in a refreshing Korean setting." -- The Miami Herald, "Atmospheric and exuberantly filmic . . . a simple but visceral romance in a refreshing Korean setting." -Christine Thomas, The Miami Herald, Extraordinary . . . A page-turner of a book . . . South Korea provides not only the backdrop of Soo-Ja's story, but also the context for Park's novel, which spans the decades after the Korean War to the beginning of the country's economic boom. In a sense, Soo-Ja's story parallels South Korea's development from a poor, struggling state to a gleaming Asian tiger. - Chicago Tribune
Dewey Decimal813/.6
SynopsisBeautiful and ambitious, Soo-Ja Choi attempts to find happiness in a land where wives have no rights and mothers own nothing, where love remains elusive, and the only way to survive is to live the lessons of Confucian tradition: perseverance, strength, loyalty, and grace. Charting her way through an ill-advised marriage, Soo-Ja must navigate the intrigue and dangers of living with her conniving in-laws, all the while longing for her true love of the past, the elusive Doctor Yul. And when he enters her life again, Soo-Ja is confronted with a final chance at happiness, but must make a mother's ultimate choice. Epic and intimate, Park's debut offering--based on his own mother's story--is a snapshot of a nation rising from a poor, rural country into a major world power in the aftermath of a devastating war. This Burns My Heart evokes a strong sense of place and era reminiscent of Sarah Waters, and the richly drawn characters and exploration of women's changing roles brings to mind Lisa See., In this "extraordinary" ( Chicago Tribune ) and compelling love story set in postwar Korea in the 1960s, an unhappily married woman struggles to give her daughter a good life and to find love in a society caught between ancient tradition and change. On the eve of her marriage, beautiful and strong-willed Soo-Ja Choi receives a passionate proposal from a young medical student. But caught up in her desire to pursue a career in Seoul, she turns him away, having impetuously chosen another man who she believes will let her fulfill her dreams. Instead, she finds herself tightly bound by tradition and trapped in a suffocating marriage, her ambition reduced to carving out a successful future for her only daughter. Through it all, she longs for the man she truly loves, whose path she seems destined to cross again and again. In This Burns My Heart , Samuel Parks has crafted a transcendent love story that vibrantly captures 1960s South Korea and brings to life an unforgettable heroine., In this compelling love story set in postwar Korea in the 1960s, an unhappily married woman struggles to give her daughter a good life and to find love in a society caught between ancient tradition and change.
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