# Chinatown

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- Book: [Chinatown](https://www.bookquiver.com/oh-jung-hee/chinatown) ([Chinatown.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/oh-jung-hee/chinatown.md))
- Authors: [Oh Jung-hee](https://www.bookquiver.com/oh-jung-hee)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4174-436-9
- Pages: 112
- Published: 2025-07-17
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In 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.