2.) Publication date of this book is: July 25, 2012. (1992/93 refers to the original Korean version; this is a translated-to-English version and so 1992/93 does not apply. One of the books listed in "More Editions" is apparently the 1993 original and that, I'd think, should suffice.
3.) Just as with my suggestion in another thread on the non-usefulness of having generic marketing-copy from the publisher in the GR book-summary (https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... ), I suggest replacing it with this, from the book's back cover:
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"[Kyung-sook Shin] writes intimate and heartwarming narratives that reveal the origin of the oppressive and profound pain in our hearts. This pain is embodied in a beautiful tragedy that Shin describes in meticulous detail with her characteristically slow and repetitive narrative style, weaving in such devices as defamiliarization, tension, and the slow reversal of time." -- Kim Chi-su, literary critic
Fixed. I left the description as it was. I agree the current description doesn't look ideal, but what you provided looks more like literary critics than the book description itself. Please note it can take ~30 minutes for the changes to be reflected.
...is missing, or has wrong, several details.
1.) Add translator --> Agnita Tennant
2.) Publication date of this book is: July 25, 2012. (1992/93 refers to the original Korean version; this is a translated-to-English version and so 1992/93 does not apply. One of the books listed in "More Editions" is apparently the 1993 original and that, I'd think, should suffice.
3.) Just as with my suggestion in another thread on the non-usefulness of having generic marketing-copy from the publisher in the GR book-summary (https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... ), I suggest replacing it with this, from the book's back cover:
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(quote)
"[Kyung-sook Shin] writes intimate and heartwarming narratives that reveal the origin of the oppressive and profound pain in our hearts. This pain is embodied in a beautiful tragedy that Shin describes in meticulous detail with her characteristically slow and repetitive narrative style, weaving in such devices as defamiliarization, tension, and the slow reversal of time." -- Kim Chi-su, literary critic
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