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Flowers of mold : stories / Ha Seong-nan ; translated from the Korean by Janet Hong.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Korean Series: Korean literature seriesPublisher: Rochester, NY : Open Letter, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Edition: First edition, English editionDescription: 212 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781940953960
  • 1940953960
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Waxen wings -- Nightmare -- The retreat -- The woman next door -- Flag -- Your rearview mirror -- Flowers of mold -- Toothpaste -- Early beans -- Onion.
Summary: A woman meets her next-door neighbor and loans her a spatula, then starts suffering horrific gaps in her memory. A man, feeling jilted by an unrequited love, becomes obsessed with sorting through his neighbors' garbage in the belief that it will teach him how to better relate to people. A landlord decides to raise the rent, and his tenants hatch a plan to kill him at a team-building retreat.Summary: Ha Sŏng-nan's stories seem pleasant enough, yet there's something disturbing just below the surface, ready to permanently disrupt the characters' lives. Among the stories: a woman lends her neighbor a spatula, then starts having gaps in her memory; in a team-building retreat, tenants plan to kill their landlord after he raises the rent. They are ordinary individuals-- in an increasingly urbanized and fragmented world. -- adapted from back cover
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

On the surface, Ha Seong-Nan's stories seem pleasant enough, yet there's always something disturbing just below the surface, ready to permanently disrupt the characters' lives. A woman meets her next-door neighbour and loans her a spatula, then starts suffering horrific gaps in her memory. A security guard falls in love with a magician/petty thief, and suffers a life-altering accident. A man, feeling jilted by an unrequited love, becomes obsessed with sorting through his neighbours' garbage in the belief that it will teach him how to better relate to people. These are some of the captivating, strange stories in Ha's collection - the latest in the trend of brilliant female Korean authors to appear in English.

Translated from the Korean.

"Originally published in Korea by Changbi Publishers, Inc." -- Title page verso.

Waxen wings -- Nightmare -- The retreat -- The woman next door -- Flag -- Your rearview mirror -- Flowers of mold -- Toothpaste -- Early beans -- Onion.

A woman meets her next-door neighbor and loans her a spatula, then starts suffering horrific gaps in her memory. A man, feeling jilted by an unrequited love, becomes obsessed with sorting through his neighbors' garbage in the belief that it will teach him how to better relate to people. A landlord decides to raise the rent, and his tenants hatch a plan to kill him at a team-building retreat.

Ha Sŏng-nan's stories seem pleasant enough, yet there's something disturbing just below the surface, ready to permanently disrupt the characters' lives. Among the stories: a woman lends her neighbor a spatula, then starts having gaps in her memory; in a team-building retreat, tenants plan to kill their landlord after he raises the rent. They are ordinary individuals-- in an increasingly urbanized and fragmented world. -- adapted from back cover

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