Dictée by Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung - 1982

New York: Tanam Press, 1982. First Edition, First Printing, so stated. Softcover. Very Good +. 1 vol. (179 p.) : ill. ; 21 cm. Softcover. Photo illustrated glossy wraps. Book Condition: Small closed tear to top edge of front panel, mild wear to extremities else fine. True first edition softcover published simultaneously with Tanam Press hardcover format. Not to be confused with later, far more common 1999 edition published by Three Women Press. A sharp copy of a scarce first. From Wikipedia: "Considered to be Cha's magnum opus, the book, a genre-bending novel, focuses on several women: the Korean revolutionary Yu Guan Soon, Joan of Arc, Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, Demeter and Persephone, Cha's mother Hyun Soon Huo, and Cha herself. ... The book was first published in 1982, the year Cha was murdered. The book was out of print for a while, but due in part to the publication of an edited collection on Cha's novel, Writing Self, Writing Nation (1994), Cha's work began to receive critical attention. In 1997, with the resurgence of Asian American studies and Third-wave feminism, the book was brought back into print by Norma Alarcón and Third Woman Press.