Wafers

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By Seong-nan Ha

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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,... Read More

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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.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781948830980

Publisher: Open Letter

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 27 June 2024

Country: United States

Imprint: Open Letter

Contributors:

Translated by Janet Hong

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 240.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 350

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Fiction General Fiction Seong-nan Ha

About the Author

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 Hongis awriter and translator based in Vancouver, Canada. She received the 2018 TAFirst Translation Prize and the 2018 LTI Korea Translation Award for her translation of HanYujoo'sThe Impossible Fairy Tale. She's a two-time winner of theHarveyAward forBest International Book for her translations ofKeum Suk Gendry-Kim'sGrassand Yeong-shinMa's Moms. Otherrecent translations includeHa Seong-nan'sBluebeard's First Wife(selectedas Publishers Weekly's 10 Best Books of 2020) and Kwon Yeo-sun's Lemon. She is currently theKorean prose mentor for ALTA's Emerging Translator Mentorship Program.