My Father's Liberation: A Novel

Over the course of a three-day funeral, a woman discovers new sides to her deceased father in this hilarious and heart-tugging masterwork from one of Korea's most fearless writers.

So, Father died. Slammed his head into a telephone pole. A very serious man had seriously come to the end of a seriously lived life by seriously slamming his head against a telephone pole.

Following her father’s sudden death, university lecturer Ahry returns to her rural hometown of Gurye to hold his funeral. As a ...