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Excerpts from Rina

Excerpts from Rina by Kang Youngsook Translated by Jung Yewon Chapter One: The Border e s Th oldiers walked slowly towards the twenty-two escapees, rie m fl uzzles pointed at them. A girl who had been licking her lips with her dry tongue stood up suddenly and opened her mouth to say something. “I told you not to move!” shouted the soldiers. She knelt down in her place again, and looked up at the faces of the soldiers who had come near. They were carrying rie fl s, but they, too, looked as though they were starving to death. The name of the girl, who was short, and had an oval face with yellow pimples on her forehead, was Rina. She was sixteen, the oldest girl of parents who were workers in a coal-mining area. After school, she went to a job-training center for youth, and assembled simple machine parts late into the night. When she grew sleepy and tired of the work, she lifted the screws up under her nose, saying to them, “Die, die,” and then threw them down one by one at her feet. One of the soldiers walked over and stood before the escapees who were kneeling in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture University of Hawai'I Press

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University of Hawai'I Press
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1939-6120
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by Kang Youngsook Translated by Jung Yewon Chapter One: The Border e s Th oldiers walked slowly towards the twenty-two escapees, rie m fl uzzles pointed at them. A girl who had been licking her lips with her dry tongue stood up suddenly and opened her mouth to say something. “I told you not to move!” shouted the soldiers. She knelt down in her place again, and looked up at the faces of the soldiers who had come near. They were carrying rie fl s, but they, too, looked as though they were starving to death. The name of the girl, who was short, and had an oval face with yellow pimples on her forehead, was Rina. She was sixteen, the oldest girl of parents who were workers in a coal-mining area. After school, she went to a job-training center for youth, and assembled simple machine parts late into the night. When she grew sleepy and tired of the work, she lifted the screws up under her nose, saying to them, “Die, die,” and then threw them down one by one at her feet. One of the soldiers walked over and stood before the escapees who were kneeling in

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Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture – University of Hawai'I Press

Published: Mar 23, 2011

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