Bluebeard's First Wife

Bluebeard's First Wife - Paperback

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Bluebeard's First Wife - Paperback

Bluebeard's First Wife - Paperback

by Seong-Nan Ha
$15.95
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Book Overview

A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of 2020

Disasters, accidents, and deaths abound in Bluebeard's First Wife. A woman spends a night with her fiancé and his friends, and overhears a terrible secret that has bound them together since high school. A man grows increasingly agitated by the noise made by a young family living in the apartment upstairs and arouses the suspicion of his own wife when the neighbors meet a string of unlucky incidents. A couple moves into a picture-perfect country house, but when their new dog is stolen, they become obsessed with finding the thief, and in the process, neglect their child. The paranoia-inducing, heart-quickening stories in Ha's follow-up to the critically acclaimed Flowers of Mold will have you reconsidering your own neighbors.
ISBN9781948830171
Author Seong-Nan Ha
PublisherOpen Letter Books
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedJune 2020
LanguageENG- English
Pages243
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Bluebeard's First Wife

Bluebeard's First Wife - Paperback

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By Seong-Nan Ha

About Seong-Nan Ha

Ha Seong-nan is the author of five short story collections--including Bluebeard's First Wife and Flowers of Mold--and three novels. Over her career, she's received a number of prestigious awards, such as the Dong-in Literary Award in 1999, Hankook Ilbo Literary Prize in 2000, the Isu Literature Prize in 2004, the Oh Yeong-su Literary Award in 2008, and the Contemporary Literature (Hyundae Munhak) Award in 2009. Janet Hong is a writer and translator based in Vancouver, Canada. She received the 2018 TA First Translation Prize and the 2018 LTI Korea Translation Award for her translation of Han Yujoo's The Impossible Fairy Tale. She's a two-time winner of the Harvey Award for Best International Book for her translations of Keum Suk Gendry-Kim's Grass and Yeong-shin Ma's Moms. Other recent translations include Ha Seong-nan's Bluebeard's First Wife (selected as Publishers Weekly's 10 Best Books of 2020) and Kwon Yeo-sun's Lemon. She is currently the Korean prose mentor for ALTA's Emerging Translator Mentorship Program.

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