Veteran novelist Park Kyung-ni, renowned for her masterpiece, ''Land'' (Toji), died from the after effects of a stroke, Monday. She was 82. Park, one of the most revered authors in Korea, had been in a coma since she suffered the stroke on April 4. ''Land,'' a 16-volume novel took 26 years to write and ― based around 300 characters ―depicts the turbulence at the turn of the 20th century when the Korean people were struggling against Japanese imperialism. Good-bye, Master...
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Veteran novelist Park Kyung-ni, renowned for her masterpiece, ''Land'' (Toji), died from the after effects of a stroke, Monday. She was 82. Park, one of the most revered authors in Korea, had been in a coma since she suffered the stroke on April 4. ''Land,'' a 16-volume novel took 26 years to write and ― based around 300 characters ―depicts the turbulence at the turn of the 20th century when the Korean people were struggling against Japanese imperialism. Good-bye, Master...
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