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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 Typhoon Kingdom
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'Based on the seventeenth-century journal of a shipwrecked Dutch sailor, and testimonies of surviving Korean 'Comfort Women,' Typhoon Kingdom is a story of war, romance, and survival that brings to life the devastating history of Korea at crucial moments in its struggle for independence.

In 1653, the Dutch East India Company’s Sparrowhawk is wrecked on a Korean island, and Hae-jo, a local fisherman, guides the ship’s bookkeeper to Seoul in search of his surviving shipmates. The two men, one who has never ventured to the mainland, and the other unable to speak the language, are soon forced to choose between loyalty to each other, and a king determined to maintain his country’s isolation.

Three-hundred years later, in the midst of the Japanese occupation, Yoo-jin is taken from her family and forced into prostitution, and a young soldier must navigate the Japanese surrender and ensuing chaos of the Korean War to find her.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Nedlands, Inner Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: UWA Publishing , 2019 .
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      Extent: 288 p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published April 2019.

      ISBN: 9781760800307

Works about this Work

Tempestuous Heart of Korea Rohan Wilson , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 3 August 2019; (p. 24)

— Review of Typhoon Kingdom Matthew Hooton , 2019 single work novel

'What can a novel say about something as boundless as a nation? It might appear to be beyond the scope of what a work of fiction might achieve from some angles, given the infinite points a writer might begin or end a story about nationhood.' (Introduction)

'This Is True' Alison Broinowski , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June - July no. 412 2019; (p. 30)

'In the May 2019 issue of Quadrant, its literary editor, Barry Spurr, inveighed against the ‘inane expansion of creative writing courses’. Professor Spurr’s scholarly accomplishments in the study of poetry and Australian fiction do not include creative writing. (His resignation from the University of Sydney was accepted in December 2014.) While many Australian authors have spectacularly succeeded without degrees in creative writing, such courses have certainly helped others – including Nam Le, Ceridwen Dovey, and Matthew Hooton – to write prize-winning fiction. Before studying creative writing in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia, where he now teaches in the course at Adelaide University, Hooton worked for four years as an editor and teacher in South Korea. Typhoon Kingdom is his second novel about Korea, following Deloume Road, which won the Guardian’s ‘Not the Booker Prize’ in 2010.' (Introduction)

Tempestuous Heart of Korea Rohan Wilson , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 3 August 2019; (p. 24)

— Review of Typhoon Kingdom Matthew Hooton , 2019 single work novel

'What can a novel say about something as boundless as a nation? It might appear to be beyond the scope of what a work of fiction might achieve from some angles, given the infinite points a writer might begin or end a story about nationhood.' (Introduction)

'This Is True' Alison Broinowski , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June - July no. 412 2019; (p. 30)

'In the May 2019 issue of Quadrant, its literary editor, Barry Spurr, inveighed against the ‘inane expansion of creative writing courses’. Professor Spurr’s scholarly accomplishments in the study of poetry and Australian fiction do not include creative writing. (His resignation from the University of Sydney was accepted in December 2014.) While many Australian authors have spectacularly succeeded without degrees in creative writing, such courses have certainly helped others – including Nam Le, Ceridwen Dovey, and Matthew Hooton – to write prize-winning fiction. Before studying creative writing in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia, where he now teaches in the course at Adelaide University, Hooton worked for four years as an editor and teacher in South Korea. Typhoon Kingdom is his second novel about Korea, following Deloume Road, which won the Guardian’s ‘Not the Booker Prize’ in 2010.' (Introduction)

Last amended 14 Mar 2019 11:19:10
Settings:
  • Korea, East Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
  • 1653
  • ca. 1953
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