Younghill Kang : : Grass Roof : : Scribner's New York 1st 1931

Grass Roof

By Younghill Kang 

Published by Scribner's Sons, New York, 1931. FIrst Edition. Hardback, orange cloth binding, 8vo, 367 pages.

CONDITION
A good first edition. The cloth binding is good with light surface soiling. Endpapers good with neat pen inscription. All contents present and pages good throughout. Overall a good first edition.

Autobiographical novel of a scholar’s son’s coming of age in small village during the Japanese occupation, though that is felt with some distance. Kang focuses on classical education in that era, traditions for holidays and ceremonies, schooling, friends, family dynamic, a detailed account of Sam-Il, and finally emigration to America as young man. The prequel to Kang’s seminal 'East Goes West'.

(BS4/ BOTTOM)