On the Nature of Human Resource Development: Holistic Agency and an Almost-Autoethnographical Exploration of Becoming
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The nature of human resource development (HRD) has been, and remains, a contested topic - the debate...
Seismic Data Interpretation and Evaluation for Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production: A Practitioner's Guide: 2016
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This book introduces readers to the field of seismic data interpretation and evaluation, covering...
Klaus Kinski, Beast of Cinema: Critical Essays and Fellow Filmmaker Interviews
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With more than 130 films and a career spanning four decades, Klaus Kinski (1926-1991) was one of the...
Lust for a Vampire (1971)
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Hammer exploitation movie; sequel to The Vampire Lovers. In 19th-century Austria, an itinerant...
Religion 101: From Allah to Zen Buddhism, an Exploration of the Key People, Practices, and Beliefs That Have Shaped the Religions of the World
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Discover the origins and traditions of world religions! With so many religions in the world, it...
Homemade Academic Circus: Idiosyncratically Embodied Explorations into Artistic Research and Circus Performance
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This book takes its starting point in a rare experiment, that of an academic researcher attempting...
Inji works for a secret branch of a well-known matchmaking agency. Men who would like a wife without the long term commitment, hire a Field Wife. She fulfils their every wish, be it domestic or sexual. Inji’s current husband is a repeat contract. He’s not very good at being a husband, and reinforces Inji’s opinions on marriage: unnecessary and unfulfilling. And then there’s the possibility of domestic violence and exploitation.
To be fair, this doesn’t paint a great picture of marriage in (this case) Korea. Inji doesn’t even refer to her husband by name. He’s just “husband”, which makes him almost incidental to the story.
There’s a lot going on in this novel: family dynamics, exploitation, modern slavery, death (by suicide?), prostitution.
And what is the trunk in the title? I personally think it’s Inji’s personal baggage: the emotions, feelings and responsibilities that she carries around with her all the time. This trunk goes with her between field husband, her family and her flat. She’s never without it.
Is it the thriller that it’s sold as? I don’t think so, but it is a very interesting glance into life in Korea, and I really enjoyed it.
A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells: Being an Illustrated Account of a Study and Exploration of the Mountains in the English Lake District: Book 2
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One name above all others has become associated with walking in the Lake District: Alfred...
