Jeolchang (Broken Song)
Author: Gu Byeong-mo
Publisher: Munhak Dongnae
ISBN: 9791141602451
352 pages | 133 * 200 mm | 458 g
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About This Book
A novelist who needs no further qualification, Gu Byeong-mo has become a brand unto herself. Her latest full-length novel, Jeolchang, has been published by Munhakdongne.
Gu Byeong-mo has proven her formidable command of narrative with Pagua, her sharp sensitivity to the spirit of the times with Your Neighbor's Table, her profound literary imagination with Through the Ivory Gate, and her boundless spectrum of thought through the short story collections A Single Sentence and Everything That Could Possibly Exist.
Her works have been translated and published in more than ten countries worldwide, selected as one of The New York Times' "100 Notable Books," and adapted into film, earning widespread love from readers. At the same time, she is a recipient of the Kim Hyun Literary Award, which places primary emphasis on "an experimental spirit that presents new horizons for Korean literature." As such, Gu Byeong-mo occupies a rare and distinctive position, enjoying passionate and steadfast support from both the literary establishment and the general readership.
Her novel Jeolchang is a work that can satisfy readers who admire any facet of Gu Byeong-mo’s vast literary territory. The title, Jeolchang (切創), literally means "a cut wound," and the novel tells the story of a woman who can read others' emotions by coming into contact with their wounds. At once a strange love story that resists easy definition, the novel ultimately becomes a deep meditation on the act of reading the other-an eternal text that can only be approached through the premise of misreading-and on both the possibility and impossibility of such an act.
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