The Catcher in the Loft
(By Cheon Un-Yeong)
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Inspired by the case of a torture specialist in 1980s South Korea who from 1988 to 2000 was a fugitive in his own house, The Catcher in the Loft (published in South Korea in 2011 as Saenggang) is in equal parts a portrait of a man coming to terms with his notorious past and a coming-of-age story centered in his dependent relationship with his college-age daughter, who has always thought of him as a patriotic policeman.
“For much of South Korea’s twentieth century, torture was an essential technology of governance that sustained authoritarian regimes. Rewriting that history as a daughter’s tale, Ch’ŏn’s searing novel forces a confrontation with the fundamental nature of political violence and gendered power. The novel’s haunting reflections on atonement and forgiveness, timely today given the political climates around the world, will prove timeless in time.” — Youngju Ryu, University of Michigan
Ch’ŏn Un-yŏng is a South Korean writer. The Catcher in the Loft is her first book of fiction to appear in English translation. Bruce Fulton is the inaugural holder of the Young-Bin Min Chair in Korean Literature and Literary Translation, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia. Together Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton are the translators of numerous volumes of modern Korean fiction.”
