Bibliograph

Bad friends, Ancco ; translated by Janet Hong

Type

Label

Bad friends, Ancco ; translated by Janet Hong

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Bad friends

Nature of contents

comics graphic novels

Oclc number

1019928795

Responsibility statement

Ancco ; translated by Janet Hong

Summary

"Jinju is bad. She smokes, drinks, runs away from home, and has no qualms about making her parents worry. Her mother and sister beg her to be a better student, sister, daughter; her beleaguered father expresses his concerns with his fists. Bad Friends is set in the 1990s in a South Korea torn between tradition and Western modernity and haunted by an air of generalized gloom. Cycles of abuse abound as the characters enact violence within their power structures: parents beat children, teachers beat students, older students beat younger students. But at each moment that the duress verges on bleakness, Ancco pulls back with soft moments of friendship between Jinju and her best friend, Jung-ae. What unfolds is a story of female friendship, a Ferrante-esque connection formed through youthful excess, malaise, and struggle that stays with the young women into adulthood."--Amazon.com

Target audience

adult

Classification