First published in1990, this is a sensational and highly controversial novel by one of Korea’smost electrifying contemporary authors. A preposterous coming-of-age story, meldingsex, death, and high school in a manner reminiscent of some perverse collisionbetween Georges Bataille and Beverly Cleary, the narrator of this book plowsthrough contemporaneous Korean mores with aplomb, bound for destruction, ormaturity—whichever comes first.

A major, never beforetranslated novel by the author of Mujông / The Heartless—often called the first modern Korean novel—The Soil tells the story of an idealistdedicating his life to helping the inhabitants of the rural community in whichhe was raised. Striving to influence the poor farmers of the time to improvetheir lots, become self-reliant, and thus indirectly change the reality ofcolonial life on the Korean peninsula, The Soil was vitallyimportant to the social movements of the time, echoing the effects andreception of such English-language novels as Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle.

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