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One Hundred Shadows

One Hundred Shadows - Hardcover

by Hwang Jungeun
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Availability:In StockContributor:Hwang Jungeun, Jung Yewon (Translator)Publish date:2024-08-20Pages:192
Language:EnglishPublisher:Erewhon BooksISBN-13:9781645661443ISBN-10:164566144XUPC:9781645661443Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Magical Realism, World Literature, City LifeBook Topic:KoreaSize:8.50 x 5.79 x 0.75 inchesWeight:0.6195Product ID:SCT83340TN
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"There is an unforgettable, curious beauty to be found here." --Han Kang, Winner of the Man Booker International Prize for The Vegetarian

Han Kang's Human Acts meets Yōko Ogawa's The Memory Police in this understated South Korean novella in translation: a restrained yet emotional magical realist examination of futility in a capitalist society written in response to the 2009 Yongsan Disaster.

In a Seoul slum marked for demolition, residents' shadows have begun to rise. No one knows how or why-but, they warn each other, do not follow your shadow if it wanders away.

As the landscape of their lives is torn apart, building by building, electronics-repair-shop employees Eungyo and Mujae can only watch as their community begins to fade. Their growing connection with one another provides solace, but against an uncaring ruling class and the inevitability of the rising shadows, their relationship may not be enough.

Winner of the Hankook Ilbo Literary Award and the Korean Bookseller's Award, One Hundred Shadows is a tender working-class perspective with subtle and affecting social commentary. This edition features an introduction by Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Vegetarian, Han Kang, and an exclusive interview with the author.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Erewhon BooksISBN-13:9781645661443ISBN-10:164566144XUPC:9781645661443Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Magical Realism, World Literature, City LifeBook Topic:KoreaSize:8.50 x 5.79 x 0.75 inchesWeight:0.6195Product ID:SCT83340TN
Hwang Jungeun, born in 1976, is one of the bright young things of Korean literature, having published two collections of short stories and three novels to date. One Hundred Shadows (2010), her first novel, is both a critical and commercial international success; its mix of oblique fantasy, hard-edge social critique, and offbeat romance garnered the Hankook Ilbo Literary Award and the Korean Booksellers' Award.

Jung Yewon is the translator of One Hundred Shadows, by Hwang Jung-eun. She is also the translator of No One Writes Back by Jang Eun-jin and one of the co-translators of A Most Ambiguous Sunday and Other Stories by Jung Young Moon, both published by Dalkey Archive as part of their Library of Korean Literature series. Her translation of Jung Young Moon's Vaseline Buddha is published by Deep Vellum.
Publisher: Erewhon Books

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Hwang Jungeun, Jung Yewon (Translator)

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Hwang Jungeun

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