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Flowers of Mold and Other Stories.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ha, Seong-nan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ha, Sŏng-nan, 1967---Translations into English.
- Ha, Sŏng-nan.
- Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
- Interpersonal relations.
- Neighbors--Fiction.
- Neighbors.
- Short stories, Korean--Translations into English.
- Short stories, Korean.
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Fiction.
- Translations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (176 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- La Vergne : Open Letter, 2019.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Korean.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781940953991
- 1940953995
- OCLC:
- 1099594280
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