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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ha, Sŏng-nan, 1967- author.

Contributor:

Hong, Janet, translator.

Series:

Korean literature series

Language:

English

Korean

Subjects (All):

Ha, Sŏng-nan, 1967---Translations into English.

Ha, Sŏng-nan.

Short stories, Korean--Translations into English.

Short stories, Korean.

Genre:

Short stories.

Translations.

Physical Description:

212 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition, English edition.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, NY : Open Letter, 2019.

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.

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

Contents:

Waxen wings

Nightmare

The retreat

The woman next door

Flag

Your rearview mirror

Flowers of mold

Toothpaste

Early beans

Onion.

ISBN:

9781940953960

1940953960

OCLC:

1085967388