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This is very good news. <BR>
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Now if only someone could get Bitwin to re-release<BR>
the DVD of the film version by Yu Hyon-mok -- one of the best Korean War films <BR>
of the 1960s.<BR>
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Mark Morris<BR>
Cambridge<BR>
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On 13/6/11 20:14, "David Kim" <dkim@asiafound-dc.org> wrote:<BR>
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</FONT></SPAN><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'>Dear Korean Studies </SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'>Colleagues: <BR>
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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'>It gives me great pleasure to share with you this news on the re-release of "The Martyred."<BR>
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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'>David Kim<BR>
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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'><I>Penguin Classics proudly presents the </I>New York Times <I>bestseller and National Book Award Finalist back in print for the first time in twenty-five years…<BR>
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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="6"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:21.0px'><B><I> <BR>
</I></B></SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'> <BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="7"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:45.0px'>THE MARTYRED<BR>
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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="7"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:26.0px'><B> <BR>
Richard E. Kim<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'>With an introduction by <B>Heinz Insu Fenkl <BR>
</B>and a foreword by <B>Susan Choi<BR>
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<I> <BR>
PRAISE FOR </I></SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'><B>THE MARTYRED:<BR>
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<B>“Written in a mood of total austerity; and yet the passion of the book is perpetually beating up against its seemingly barren surface…I am deeply moved.”<BR>
</B>―Philip Roth<BR>
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<B>“An extraordinary book. </B></SPAN></FONT><B><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>To take one incident and through it express the universal need of the human heart for God…the agony of doubt combined with the longing to believe, is difficult indeed. Kim has accomplished just this.”<BR>
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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'>―Pearl S. Buck<BR>
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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'><B>“Kim’s book stands out as one written in the great moral and psychological tradition of Job, Dostoevsky, and Albert Camus…it is a magnificent achievement, and it will last.<BR>
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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'>―<I>The New York Times Book Review<BR>
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<B>RICHARD KIM</B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>’s breathtaking novel, <B>THE MARTYRED (</B>Penguin Classics; ISBN: 978-0-14-310640-1; On-Sale 5/31/11; $16.00; 240 pages; also available as an e-book), begins during the early weeks of the Korean War. Captain Lee, a young South Korean officer, is ordered to investigate the kidnapping and mass murder of North Korean ministers by Communist forces. For propaganda purposes, the priests are declared martyrs, but as he delves into the crime, Lee finds himself asking: what if they are not martyrs? What if they renounced their faith in the face of death, failing both God and country? Should the people be fed this lie? Part thriller, part mystery, part existential treatise, <B>THE MARTYRED</B><I> </I>is a stunning meditation on truth, religion, and faith in the time of crisis. <BR>
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<B>THE MARTYRED </B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>is a moving modern classic that will appeal to fans of Chang-Rae Lee’s <I>The Surrendered, </I>and its publication is timed to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of the Korean War (June 1950 to July 1953). It also follows the recent publication of the fortieth anniversary edition of Richard Kim’s <B>LOST NAMES </B>from University of California Press (ISBN: 9780520268128; on sale: March 2011; $18.95).<BR>
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<B><U>ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS<BR>
</U>Richard E. Kim </B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>(1932-2009) was born Kim Eun Kook in Hamheung, Korea. After an honorable discharge from the Republic of South Korea’s army, he immigrated to the United States, where he rose to prominence as an academic and a writer of novels, including <I>The Innocent </I>and <I>Lost Names</I>. <BR>
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Heinz Insu Fenkl </B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>is the director of the creative writing program at the State University of New York, New Paltz.<BR>
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Susan Choi </B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>is the author of <I>A Person of Interest, The Foreign Student, </I>and <I>American Woman</I>, a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize.<BR>
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<B>THE MARTYRED<BR>
</B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE='font-size:13.0px'>by <B>Richard E. Kim</B> with an introduction by <B>Heinz Insu Fenkl </B>and a foreword by <B>Susan Choi<BR>
</B>Penguin Classics ♦ 978-0-14-310640-1 ♦ On-Sale 5/31/11♦ $16.00 ♦ 240 pages<BR>
Also available as an e-book.<BR>
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For more information or to schedule an interview with Heinz Insu Fenkl or Susan Choi, please contact: <BR>
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Langan Kingsley <BR>
212.366.2226 </B></SPAN><B><SPAN STYLE='font-size:13.0px'>/ </SPAN><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'>langan.kingsley@us.penguingroup.com <BR>
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<B>Please visit:<BR>
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<a href="http://www.richardekim.com/">http://www.richardekim.com/</a></B></SPAN></FONT><B><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> <a href="http://www.richardekim.com/"><http://www.richardekim.com/></a> <BR>
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David L. Kim<BR>
</B>Coordinator, Luce Scholars Program<BR>
The Asia Foundation <BR>
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Tel: (202) 588-9468 / Fax: (202) 588-9409 / Cell: (301) 787-1195<BR>
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