Yang Gui-ja is one of Korea's major literary figures of the last
generation, with a succession of literary prizes and best-sellers
to her credit. Her most representative early work, the 1987
Wonmi-dong saramdeul, is available in English as A Distant and
Beautiful Place. In the 1990s her writing took an increasingly
personal turn with a series of popular works including
Contradictions (Mosun), South Korea's best-selling novel in 1998.
Contradictions is a coming-of-age tale that explores the paradoxes
and contradictions of the human condition and delves into the
meaning of personal happiness. The book opens with a moment of
epiphany as the main character An Jin-jin awakens to the
realization that her entire energy must be devoted to her own life.
She struggles over whom to marry with an awareness of consequences
gleaned from seeing the divergence in the lives of twin sisters-her
mother and her aunt. A host of binary oppositions is also presented
in the lives of the men around her: a wannabe gang boss brother, an
Ivy League cousin, an alcoholic schizophrenic father, a steadfast
but rigid uncle, and her two suitors. Yang skillfully develops
these characters in increasingly complex threads as the novel
unfolds in a series of surprises.
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