An editor fighting censorship, the soul of a dead man, and the mother of a boy shot during a popular uprising narrate sections of this author’s novel Human Acts. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author who also wrote about a woman who starts to believe that she is a tree after having dreams about animal slaughter in the novel The Vegetarian.
ANSWER: Han Kang (“hahn kahng”)
[10e] The Vegetarian is based on an earlier story by Han titled for these objects “of my Woman,” in which a woman literally turns into a tree. Characters in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms swear an oath in a garden named for a type of these objects.
ANSWER: fruit [or yeolmae; accept peaches; accept táo]
[10h] The Vegetarian drew comparisons to this novel by Kyung-sook Shin, in which Park So-Nyo’s children realize how little they know her after she disappears in a subway station in Seoul.
ANSWER: Please Look After Mom [or eommaleul butaghae]
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