[KS] "The Martyred"

[Mark Morris]

This is very good news.

Now if only someone could get Bitwin to re-release
the DVD  of the film version by Yu Hyon-mok -- one of the best Korean War
films 
of the 1960s.



Mark Morris
Cambridge


On 13/6/11 20:14, "David Kim" <dkim at asiafound-dc.org> wrote:

>  
> 
> Dear Korean Studies Colleagues:
>  
> It gives me great pleasure to share with you this news on the re-release of
> "The Martyred."
>  
> David Kim
>  
>  
> ***
>  
> Penguin Classics proudly presents the New York Times bestseller and National
> Book Award Finalist back in print for the first time in twenty-five years…
> 
>  
>  
> THE MARTYRED
> 
>  
> Richard E. Kim
>  
> With an introduction by Heinz Insu Fenkl
> and a foreword by Susan Choi
>  
>  
> PRAISE FOR THE MARTYRED:
> 
> “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.”
> ―Philip Roth
>  
> “An extraordinary book.  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.”
> 
> ―Pearl S. Buck
> 
>  
> 
> “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.
> 
> ―The New York Times Book Review
> 
> \
>  
> RICHARD KIM’s breathtaking novel, THE MARTYRED (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, THE
> MARTYRED is a stunning meditation on truth, religion, and faith in the time of
> crisis.  
>  
> THE MARTYRED is a moving modern classic that will appeal to fans of Chang-Rae
> Lee’s The Surrendered, 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 LOST NAMES from University of California Press (ISBN: 9780520268128; on
> sale:  March 2011; $18.95).
>  
> ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
> Richard E. Kim (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 The Innocent and Lost Names.
>  
> Heinz Insu Fenkl is the director of the creative writing program at the State
> University of New York, New Paltz.
>  
> Susan Choi is the author of A Person of Interest, The Foreign Student, and
> American Woman, a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize.
>  
> THE MARTYRED
> by Richard E. Kim with an introduction by Heinz Insu Fenkl and a foreword by
> Susan Choi
> Penguin Classics  ♦ 978-0-14-310640-1 ♦ On-Sale 5/31/11♦ $16.00 ♦  240 pages
> Also available as an e-book.
>  
> For more information or to schedule an interview with Heinz Insu Fenkl or
> Susan Choi, please contact:
>  
> Langan Kingsley 
> 212.366.2226 / langan.kingsley at us.penguingroup.com
>  
> Please visit:
>  
> http://www.richardekim.com/ <http://www.richardekim.com/>
> http://us.penguingroup.com <http://us.penguingroup.com/> .
>  
> ***
> David L. Kim
> Coordinator, Luce Scholars Program
> The Asia Foundation
> 1779 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, #815
> Washington, DC  20036
> Tel: (202) 588-9468 / Fax: (202) 588-9409 / Cell: (301) 787-1195
> Email: dkim at asiafound-dc.org <mailto:dkim at asiafound-dc.org>
> Skype: Davidlkim (The Asia Foundation)
> www.asiafoundation.org <http://www.asiafoundation.org/>
>  
> 


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