God-disease / An Chang Joon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Joon, An Chang, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Identity (Philosophical concept)--Fiction.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Language and languages--Fiction.

Language and languages.

Social norms--Psychological aspects--Fiction.

Social norms.

Names--Fiction.

Names.

Mind and body--Fiction.

Mind and body.

Change--Fiction.

Change.

Genre:

short stories.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

ix, 187 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

Louisville, Kentucky : Sarabande Books, [2025]

Summary:

Imagine a space where cities and municipalities are delineated only by letters: a place in flux, a freewheeling confluence that does not commit to being American, Korean, or even Korean American. This is where God-Disease takes place. Strange things happen here. Identities warp and shift; sometimes they vanish altogether. In the titular story, a museum insect curator returns to her birth town, J Municipality, feeling empty and searching for answers to her mother's absence; was it insanity that plagued her, or was it shin-byeong--god-disease? Equal parts Southern Korean Gothic and slipstream, the collection is a meditation on language, identity, and names, and how deceptively fragile they can all be.--Publisher.

ISBN:

9781956046335

195604633X

OCLC:

1428896130

Publisher Number:

90101418137