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978-1-84659-021-4
Fiction
March 2007
Paperback
13 x 20 cm
152 pages
£7.99

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• About The Author
• About the Translator
• Book Info
• Excerpts
• Reviews


About the Author
Oh Jung-Hee was born in Seoul in 1947. In the 1970s, when modernisation was in full force in Korea, she began her career as a writer and is now an uncontested master of this genre of brief, dense prose, the quintessence of Korean literature.

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Jenny Wang Medina

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Jenny Wang Medina is a doctoral student of Korean literature and culture at Columbia University in New York City. She has translated numerous works of Korean short fiction into English. Her most recent translation, of Korean author Ch'oe Yun's novel Mannequinne, won the Korea Times Translation Award in 2006.

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Reviews
'Oh Jung-Hee attempts that tricky enterprise, a narrative seen through the eyes of a child. She succeeds through a delicate, understated writing that finds drama in the everyday, and the extraordinary in the ordinary.'
Tobias Hill, author of The Cryptographer

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Excerpts
Small birds were flying up into the darkening sky. I kept feeling like I had forgotten something and suddenly stopped short, raising my arms and staring at my empty hands. Where had I left that birdcage? Where had the bird gone?

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