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Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Korean writer Ch'oe Myongik (1902/03-1972?) lived his whole life in Pyongyang, experiencing the Japanese colonial era; the second Sino-Japanese, Asia-Pacific, and Korean wars; the U.S. bombing and Soviet occupation; and the early years of the DRPK from that vantage. His cinematic, modernist prose pays close attention to the gritty realities of the city, and he remained throughout his career a meticulous and creative detailer of the lives of the marginalized...
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Open Letter
Pub. Date
©2020.
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English
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"Disasters, accidents, and deaths abound in Bluebeard's First Wife. A woman spends a night with her fianc and his friends, and overhears a terrible secret that has bound them together since high school. A man grows increasingly agitated by the apartment noise made by a young family living upstairs and arouses the suspicion of his own wife when the neighbors meet a string of unlucky incidents. A couple moves into a picture-perfect country house, but...
3) Wafers
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Open Letter, Literary Translations from the University of Rochester
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"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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Publisher
Open Letter
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Praised for her meticulous descriptions and ability to transform the mundanity of everyday life into something strange and unexpected, Ha Seong-nan bursts into the English literary scene with this stunning collection that confirms Korea's place at the forefront of contemporary women's writing. From the title story told by a woman suffering from gaps in her memory, to one about a man seeking insight in bags of garbage, to a surreal story about a car...
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