Modern Family - (Korean Voices) by Myeong-Kwan Cheon (Paperback)

About the Book

A contemporary family drama in which adult children lose jobs, divorce, and move back home with mom and chaos ensues.

Book Synopsis

Forty-year-old In-mo, a movie director who's been jobless for the past decade decides to move in with his widowed mother. His older brother, with five criminal convictions, has already moved back. Then younger sister Mi-yeon arrives with her bratty, rebellious fifteen-year-old daughter. Mom is delighted to have her entire dysfunctional family back again, but what ensues is both comic and frightening.

Fast-paced and imaginative, Modern Family introduces English-speaking readers to a bright new voice in world literature.

Cheon Myeong-Kwan won the Tenth Munhakdongne Novel Award for The Queen of Red Bricks. Modern Family has been made into a movie in Korea.

About the Author

Myeong-Kwan Cheon: CHEON Myeong-Kwan's writing career took off when he won the 2003 Munhakdongne New Writers Award for his short story 'Frank and Me.' Only a year later in 2004, he won the 10th Munhakdongne Novel Award for 'The Queen of Red Bricks'.
Kyoung-lee Park: Kyoung-lee Park is a professional translator specializing in translations from Korean to English. In 2010, she was awarded the grand prize in the 9th Korean Literature Translation Contest for New Translators.