Ta-Som Helena Yun: Oh Sunny
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Stranded on gym mats
In a moving coming-of-age novel, Sunny Oh, caught between two worlds, searches for her own identity. Sunny Oh, 26, has graduated from law school, has a successful doctor for a boyfriend - and an urgent need to simply sleep. Born in Germany to Korean parents, she feels neither German nor Korean. Her life is a constant balancing act to please everyone: her studies, the perfect relationship - all compromises to meet the expectations of her parents and those around her.
After a heated argument at the traditional Chussok festival, she has had enough. She breaks away from her family and flees - to the gym of a Korean cultural association, of all places. As an "intern", Sunny takes up residence in the equipment room and is suddenly confronted with the culture she had just wanted to escape. But it is here, between gymnastics equipment and traditions, that Sunny has to confront her past and the question of self-determination.
Coming of age with a German-Korean identity in Berlin
Ta-Som Helena Yun, born in Berlin in 1985, moved to South Korea with her family at the age of nine. There she was a scholarship holder at the State School for Traditional Korean Music and learned Korean Pansori singing, among other things. She returned to Germany alone at the age of seventeen. During her law studies, she was a scholarship holder of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. In 2022, she published a short story in the magazine "BELLA triste". With her novel project, Ta-Som Helena Yun was a scholarship holder of the Prose Workshop 2022 at the Literary Colloquium Berlin. She is a judge at the district court in Berlin.
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