One Hundred Shadows
Published on 20. August 2024
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-1-64566-144-3 (ISBN)
Description
"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. Employees of a small electronics shop, Eungyo and Mujae can only watch their tight-knit community begin to fade as the landscape of their lives is torn apart, building by building. 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"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Kensington Publishing
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 147 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
281 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64566-144-3 (9781645661443)
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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.