Bøger af Man-Sik Chae

In this satirical novel, set in Japanese-occupied Korea, Master Yun, embodying the traditional ambitions of a standard Korean paterfamilias, by being projected fast forward into a modern urban environment, caricatures the increasing irrelevance of Confucian mores to 20th-century social reality.

Turbid Rivers was written just before Ch'ae Man-Sik was arrested in 1938 by the Japanese colonial government. It is a realistic portrayal of life in Korea under Japanese colonization. The tragic story of a woman's life, the novel is also a penetrating look into the objectification of women.