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Media Roundup: Books With Strong Female Characters
In celebration of Women’s History Month, today we are featuring fictional works with strong female characters. In each of these stories, readers experience a place in time through the eyes and experiences of the protagonist(s).
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Media Roundup
There a Petal Silently Falls
Three Stories by Ch’oe Yun
Ch’oe Yun. Translated by Bruce Fulton and Ju-Chan Fulton
Written by a woman, There a Petal Silently Falls, follows the wanderings of a girl traumatized by her mother’s death during the 1980 Kwangju Massacre, in which a reported 2,000 civilians were killed for protesting government military rule.
From the CUP Archive
The Song of Everlasting Sorrow
A Novel of Shanghai
Wang Anyi. Translated by Michael Berry and Susan Chan Egan
The Song of Everlasting Sorrow is a sweeping novel that depicts Shanghai over decades following the main character Wang Qiyaoa —girl born of the longtong. In August we’ll be releasing Wang Anyl’s novel, Fu Ping.
From the CUP Archive
The Man Who Couldn’t Die
The Tale of an Authentic Human Being
Olga Slavnikova. Translated by Marian Schwartz
New from the Russian Library series, The Man Who Couldn’t Die paints a portrait of the chaos of early-1990s Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. In this work, the wife and stepdaughter of a paralyzed veteran conceal the Soviet Union’s collapse from him in order to keep him—and his pension—alive until it turns out the tough old man has other plans.
In the News
From the CUP Archive
Although Kiku’s Prayer is written by a man, it is told through the eyes of Kiku, a self-assured young woman from a rural Japanese village who falls in love with Seikichi, a devoted Catholic man.
