A Greater Music
From the author nominated for the Best Translated Book Award and the PEN Translation Prize Bae Suah offers the chance to unknow-to see the everyday afresh and be defamiliarized with what we believe we know-which is no small offering.-Sophie Hughes, Music & LiteratureNear the beginning of A Greater Music, the narrator, a young Korean writer, falls into an icy river in the Berlin suburbs, where she's been housesitting for her on-off boyfriend Joachim. This sets into motion a series of memories that move between the hazily defined present and the period three years ago when she first lived in Berlin. Throughout, the narrator's relationship w…
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Weitere Autoren: Smith, Deborah (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-940953-47-2
- EAN: 9781940953472
- Produktnummer: 22596489
- Verlag: Open Letter
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 128 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 602 KB
Über den Autor
Bae Suah is one of the most highly acclaimed contemporary Korean authors, with over ten short story collections and five novels to her name. She received the Hanguk Ilbo literary prize in 2003, and the Tongseo literary prize in 2004. She has also translated several books from the German, including works by W. G. Sebald, Franz Kafka, and Jenny Erpenbeck. Nowhere to be Found, translated by Sora Kim-Russell, was the first of her books to appear in English, and was longlisted for a PEN Translation Prize.Deborah Smith's literary translations from the Korean include two novels by Han Kang (The Vegetarian and Human Acts), and two by Bae Suah, (A Greater Music and Recitation). She also recently founded Tilted Axis Press to bring more works from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East into English.
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