Margaret Drabble reviews Park Kyung-ni's Land in the Times Literary Supplement: "a remarkable and important work in which Eastern and Western traditions fruitfully meet" http://bit.ly/iQ7SBn #
Author: Margaret Drabble
Selected publications by Margaret Drabble
- The Red Queen, Penguin 2004
Margaret Drabble: the search for the Crown Princess
A couple of years ago at the BAKS conference Margaret Drabble gave a fascinating talk about how she came to be captivated by the story of Lady Hyegyong, wife of Prince Sado. Sado was son of a king and father of a king, but never made it to the throne himself. Lady Hyegyong wrote her […]
Margaret Drabble: The Red Queen
(Penguin, 2005) Inspired by the Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong. The first half is a re-telling of the original story with the benefit of an additional 200 years’ hindsight; the second half is set in modern times, in a story which echoes some of the themes of the original. The only part which stretches the credulity […]