This Burns My Heart A Novel

Name: This Burns My Heart A Novel
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ISBN: 9781439199626

ISBN-10: 1439199620

ISBN-13: 9781439199626

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Authors: Samuel Park

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Chamara is difficult to translate from Korean to English: To stand it, to bear it, to grit your teeth and not cry out? To hold on, to wait until the worst is over? Such is the burden Samuel Park’s audacious, beautiful, and strong heroine, Soo-Ja Choi, faces in This Burns My Heart, an epic love story set in the intriguing landscape of postwar South Korea. On the eve of marriage to her weak, timid fiancé, Soo-Ja falls in love with a young medical student. But out of duty to her family and her culture she turns him away, choosing instead a world that leaves her trapped by suffocating customs.In a country torn between past and present, Soo-Ja struggles to find happiness in a loveless marriage…

Book details

List price: $27.99
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/6/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English

Korean-American author Samuel Park was born and raised in Sao Paulo, Brazil until the age of fourteen. His novel This Burns My Heart was chosen as a "Best Book of 2011" by Amazon, Kirkus Reviews, and BookPage. It was named one of NPR's "Freshest Reads" and Today's "Favorite Things," and has been translated into four languages. He is an assistant professor of English at Columbia College and lives in Chicago. Visit Samuel Park at SamuelPark.com.