{"product_id":"park-kyung-ri-age-of-distrust","title":"Park Kyung-ri: Age of Distrust","description":"\u003cp\u003e*The Age of Distrust*, a collection of representative short stories by Park Kyung-ni—the author of the epic novel *Toji* and a writer familiar to us through the inclusion of numerous works in textbooks such as *The Age of Distrust*, *Fascism*, and *The Daughters of Kim Pharmacy*—has been published as the forty-eighth volume of the *Complete Works of Korean Literature*. In particular, this book holds added significance as it was published on May 5, 2021, marking the 13th anniversary of the author's passing. Park Kyung-ni is one of the representative writers who immersed herself in the devastation of the Korean War and the poverty of the subsequent social reconstruction period, brilliantly recreating them in her novels. Born in 1926, she graduated from the Seoul Home Childcare Teacher Training School and faced the Korean War while working as a teacher in Yeon'an, Hwanghae Province; subsequently, she experienced the deaths of family members and captured that pain in her fiction. Having published the short story \"Calculation\" in *Modern Literature* in 1955 and officially debuted the following year with the inclusion of \"Black and White,\" she went on to write approximately thirty short stories and well over twenty full-length novels. For this collection of short stories and novellas, Professor Kang Ji-hee of Hanshin University, who has researched Park Kyung-ri and Kang Shin-jae specifically among female full-length novelists of the 1960s, served as the chief editor. By comparing the original manuscripts with various editions published during the author's lifetime, she established texts that are both accessible to modern readers and accurate. Park Kyung-ri was a writer who, while enduring an era of loneliness and despair, could not let go of “a fastidiousness that could not compromise with reality, a pursuit of human dignity, and a fascination with romantic love that transcends fate and institutions” (Commentary, “Time of the Night Without Illusion”). Reading this book will be a golden opportunity to savor her vast literary world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!-- kyobooks-enrichment: english summary above, importer facts below --\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKorean title:\u003c\/strong\u003e 불신시대\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKorean author:\u003c\/strong\u003e 박경리\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKorean publisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e 문학과지성사\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9788932038452\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Park Kyung-ri","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54200486658412,"sku":"9788932038452","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1002\/3911\/4604\/files\/kyobooks-S000000570597-e2f47f2e1084c7720f1f2074f6030209248e946643011618a25819901244e1a2.jpg?v=1786866548","url":"https:\/\/checkout.kyobooks.com\/products\/park-kyung-ri-age-of-distrust","provider":"KyoBooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}