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by Seong-Nan Ha
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Availability:In StockContributor:Seong-Nan Ha, Janet Hong (Translator)Publish date:2024-06-04Pages:350
Language:EnglishPublisher:Open LetterISBN-13:9781948830980ISBN-10:1948830981UPC:9781948830980Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, World Literature, WomenBook Topic:KoreaSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCQ8G33JMP
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 one of the stars of contemporary short fiction, writing edgy, socially conscious stories that bring to mind the novels of Han Kang and the film Parasite.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Open LetterISBN-13:9781948830980ISBN-10:1948830981UPC:9781948830980Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, World Literature, WomenBook Topic:KoreaSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCQ8G33JMP
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. She received the 2018 TA First Translation Prize and the 2018 LTI Korea Translation Award for her translation of Han Yujoo's The Impossible Fairy Tale. She's a two-time winner of the Harvey Award for Best International Book for her translations of Keum Suk Gendry-Kim's Grass and Yeong-shin Ma's Moms. Other recent translations include Ha Seong-nan's Bluebeard's First Wife (selected as Publishers Weekly's 10 Best Books of 2020) and Kwon Yeo-sun's Lemon. She is currently the Korean prose mentor for ALTA's Emerging Translator Mentorship Program.


Publisher: Open Letter

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Seong-Nan Ha, Janet Hong (Translator)

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Seong-Nan Ha

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