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Jane, Frank and Mia

Dami Jung

US $17.43

US $21.79

2022/11

9789888492954

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Jane, Frank and Mia is about three people who cross each other’s paths by some unforeseen event. Jane and Frank are seemingly opposites. Jane is a Korean woman who came to the Netherlands to marry Mia’s father but is now divorced and raising her 15-year-old daughter Mia. Frank is Mia’s chemistry teacher and is famous for his blunt aggressive attitude. As for Mia, she has been feeling lost since her parents’ divorce, and unconsciously becomes the pivot of the story as she struggles to find herself. The lives of these three become intertwined as they recognize each other’s pain and the obstacles each face, such as discrimination, oppression, misunderstanding, and violence. The author writes, “As a member of a diaspora myself, I love reading books by writers with immigrant backgrounds. War and poverty caused earlier migrations, and often there was no possibility of return. And when you can’t go back, it gives the story finality, urgency. Later generations, people like myself, had more choices. They could return to their country of origin or move to yet another country for their career, for profit, or for love. I am intrigued by what makes a home and why people stay or leave. I wanted to tell a story about someone who’d left their home.”

作者簡介

Dami Jung

Dami Jung was born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1979, moved to New Zealand with her parents as a girl, and has now been living in The Netherlands since 2006. Encouraged by her parents (her father, a teacher of the Korean Language and her mother, a writer) she read avidly and wrote daily from an early age. Later, music became her equal passion. She attended Sunhwa Arts School, majoring in music composition, and earned a Bachelor of Music (BMus) degree in Musicology from the Korean National University of Arts. In New Zealand, she studied at Victoria University of Wellington (Asian Studies and Women’s Studies), and won the Westpac Chamber Music Competition (now the NZCT Chamber Music Contest) with the Ivinkaia trio, appearing on the television programme, Asia Dynamic. Later she worked as an interpreter. Until a few years ago, she wrote primarily in Korean and her first novel, “The Girl in the Air” was published in Korean by Motherbooks in 2011. As she has now spent most of her life outside Korea, she has decided to switch to English so that her family and friends can read what she writes. “Jane, Frank and Mia” is her first novel to be published in English. Her wish as a writer is to pour out stories close to her heart which can mean something to others, to help people relate and feel like they’re not alone.

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Proverse publishes internationally from Hong Kong mainly high quality literary and general titles (novels, novellas, single author short story and poetry collections, poetry anthologies, biography and autobiography), also some travel, sport, young author, mixed genre, educational and academic works, and edited historical source materials. Proverse authors include local and international authors, native speakers of English as well as non-native speakers. Topics and settings vary between local and international. Publication modes are paperback, hardback, ebook and audiobook. Most books are in the English language, including translations into English. A number are in Chinese, and a couple in Italian, a few are bilingual (English/Chinese; English/Italian). Several titles received publication support from Hong Kong Arts Development Council and other cultural bodies in Hong Kong and elsewhere.In 2008, Proverse established theannual international Proverse Prize for unpublished book-length non-fiction, fiction or poetry submitted in English. In 2016, Proverse launched theannual international Proverse Poetry Prize for a single poem submitted in English. Both prizes open for entries no later than 7 May each year (closing date 30 June). Entries to both prizes are invited from anywhere in the world and are open to all over eighteen years old, whatever their nationality, residence or citizenship. Writers and poets from Hong Kong and many countries in the world participate. Winners have been both local and international.Beginning in 2009 and continuing, Proverse organises in central Hong Kong a Spring and an Autumn literary event, open to the public. In recent years, a parallel event, available internationally, is shown on Youtube.Of the titles published by Proverse, several have attracted a Preface or advance appreciation from figures of international reputation. Two Proverse authors have been best sellers, one (Peter Gregoire) in Hong Kong and the other (Nicholas Binge) in Spain.Further informationWebsite: htt[s://www.proversepublishing.comGillian Bickley, ‘The Proverse Prize, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Vol 59, 2023 Issue 1. https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TKVG8HZSZWX6R4CUJUKM/full?target=10.1080/17449855.2022.2101653Proverse titles page:https://cup.cuhk.edu.hk/ProversehkProverse Autumn Reception 2022 video (3rd edit): https://youtu.be/9L0L0AY6NGQProverse Youtube channel: youtube.com/@ProversePublishing