Table for One Stories

In these indelible short stories, contemporary South Korean author Yun Ko-eun conjures up slightly off-kilter worlds tucked away in the corners of everyday life. Throughout Table for One, comedy and an element of the surreal are interwoven with the hopelessness and loneliness that pervades the protagonists' decidedly mundane lives.

Info autore

Yun Ko-eun is the award-winning author of five novels and four short story collections. Born in 1980, she lives in Seoul.

Lizzie Buehler is the translator of The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-eun and Korean Teachers by Seo Su-jin. She holds an MFA in literary translation from the University of Iowa and has studied comparative literature at Princeton and Harvard.

Riassunto

In these indelible short stories, contemporary South Korean author Yun Ko-eun conjures up slightly off-kilter worlds tucked away in the corners of everyday life. Throughout Table for One, comedy and an element of the surreal are interwoven with the hopelessness and loneliness that pervades the protagonists’ decidedly mundane lives.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Ko-eun Yun
• Con la collaborazione di: Lizzie Buehler (Traduzione)
• Editore: Columbia University Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 09.04.2024
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi
• EAN: 9780231192026
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19202-6
• Numero di pagine: 280
• Serie: Weatherhead Books on Asia
• Categorie: FICTION / Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Fiction, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / General, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Anthologies: general, Fiction: general and literary, Anthologies (non-poetry), FICTION / World Literature / Korea