The healing season of pottery / Yeon Somin ; translated by Claire Richards.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yŏn, So-min, 2000- author.

Contributor:

Richards, Clare (Translator), translator.

Standardized Title:

Kongbang ŭi kyejŏl. English

Language:

English

Korean

Subjects (All):

Artists' studios--Korea (South)--Koyang-si--Fiction.

Artists' studios.

Pottery, Korean--Fiction.

Pottery, Korean.

Young women--Fiction.

Young women.

Hikikomori--Fiction.

Hikikomori.

Loneliness--Fiction.

Loneliness.

Solitude--Fiction.

Solitude.

Self-actualization (Psychology) in women--Fiction.

Self-actualization (Psychology) in women.

Genre:

Domestic fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

264 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2024.

Language Note:

Translated from the Korean.

Summary:

"Yeon Somin's English-language debut about the art of making things by hand in a fast-paced world and the healing power of finding community"-- Provided by publisher.

After breaking down at the office and abruptly quitting her job, thirty-year-old Jungmin holes up in her apartment, speaking to no one for days on end. When she finally emerges, she stumbles upon a pottery studio in her neighborhood and is invited in by the mysterious workshop teacher. The smell of clay, the light filtering through the plant filled windows, the friendly cat, and the incredible coffee the students drink awaken her senses and make her feel alive and inspired for the first time in months. As the seasons change, Jungmin slowly returns to herself and builds a new community with the other members of the studio, who are all working through their own pasts at the pottery wheel. When the holidays approach and snow piles up on the studio windowsill, Jungmin realizes how much she has changed--with her hands busy and her mind clear, she may be ready to face the memories she's been running from and open her heart.

Contents:

What's hotter than summer?

Just 60 percent

The moment clay becomes a plate

That person you can't avoid

Late monsoon season and the cat

The one-day class revival

Centering

Cobalt blue vase

Potter wife, florist husband

My sad legend

Direction

Emerging from the cave

First snow

Wanting to speak

Christmas flea market

Chestnut Burr Village, of all places

Emerald green sea.

Notes:

Translated from the Korean.

Other Format:

Online version: Somin, Yeon, 2000- Healing season of pottery

ISBN:

9781643756752

1643756753

OCLC:

1420448029