Chinatown - Oh Jung-hee culture-society Khaled Jarrar

Khaled Jarrar

Close-Up and Taste of Cherry

from Brazil and Burundi to Pakistan and Palestine

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At the centre of the exploration are three modern masks whose different details are depicted on both sides (outside and inside)

Chinatown - Oh Jung-hee culture-society Khaled JarrarIn this emblematic selection of her stories, Oh Jung hee probes beneath the surface of seemingly quotidian lives to expose nightmarish family configurations warped by desertion, psychosis, and death. In Chinatown a young girl living on the edge of the citys Chinese community comes of age among mundane violences, collisions with adult sexuality and the American occupation; in The Garden Party a woman grapples with her conflicting identities of wife,