A seductive, disorienting novel that manipulates the fragile line between dreams and reality, by South Korea’s leading contemporary writer
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Contemporary, prestige, grave and open-ended.
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Bae Suah
- First published
- 2020
- Pages
- 160
- Publisher
- The Overlook Press, Penguin Random House, Abrams, Inc.
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781419744389
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