Sŏng-nan Ha
1) Wafers
Author
Publisher
Open Letter, Literary Translations from the University of Rochester
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"When truth is more gruesome than fiction--Ha Seong-nan is there. When people give in to their most intrusive thoughts--Ha Seong-nan is there. When man is more animal than animals themselves--Ha Seong-nan is there. In Wafers, her third short-story collection to appear in English, Ha continues to weave troublesome coincidences into the seemingly banal in her signature style of engrossing and unsettling prose. A best-seller in Korea, Ha Seong-nan is...
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Series
Publisher
Open Letter
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
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