A Selection Of The Best Short Stories By Oh Jung-hee, One Of South Korea's Most Influential Writersin This Emblematic Selection Of Her Stories, Oh Jung-hee Probes Beneath The Surface Of Seemingly Quotidian Lives To Expose Nightmarish Family Configurations Warped By Desertion, Psychosis, And Death. In 'chinatown' A Young Girl Living On The Edge Of The City's Chinese Community Comes Of Age Among Mundane Violences, Collisions With Adult Sexuality And The American Occupation; In 'the Garden Party' A Woman Grapples With Her Conflicting Identities Of Wife, Mother And Writer At An Alcohol-fuelled Gathering. Throughout A Career Spanning Six Decades, Oh Jung-hee Has Drawn Comparisons To Alice Munro, Virginia Woolf, And Joyce Carol Oates, And Is Assuredly A Trailblazing Writer.