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Bluebeard's First Wife

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Availability:In StockContributor:Seong-Nan Ha, Janet Hong (Translator)Publish date:2020-06-16Pages:243
Language:EnglishPublisher:Open LetterISBN-13:9781948830171ISBN-10:1948830175UPC:9781948830171Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Short Stories (single author), HorrorWeight:0.7011Product ID:SC0AFDDFSW
A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of 2020

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 noise made by a young family living in the apartment 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 when their new dog is stolen, they become obsessed with finding the thief, and in the process, neglect their child. The paranoia-inducing, heart-quickening stories in Ha's follow-up to the critically acclaimed Flowers of Mold will have you reconsidering your own neighbors.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Open LetterISBN-13:9781948830171ISBN-10:1948830175UPC:9781948830171Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Short Stories (single author), HorrorWeight:0.7011Product ID:SC0AFDDFSW
Ha Seong-nan is the author of five short story collections--including Bluebeard's First Wife and Flowers of Mold--and three novels. Over her career, she's received a number of prestigious awards, such as the Dong-in Literary Award in 1999, Hankook Ilbo Literary Prize in 2000, the Isu Literature Prize in 2004, the Oh Yeong-su Literary Award in 2008, and the Contemporary Literature (Hyundae Munhak) Award in 2009.

Janet Hong is a writer and translator based in Vancouver, Canada. Her work has appeared in Literary Hub, Asia Literary Review, Words Without Borders, and the Korea Times. Her other translations include Han Yujoo's The Impossible Fairy Tale and Ancco's Bad Friends.
Publisher: Open Letter

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