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dd's Umbrella

About the E-Books

Author
HWANG JUNGEUN
Co-Author
-
Translator
E. YAEWON
Publisher
Tilted Axis Press
Published Year
2024
Country
UNITED KINGDOM
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century

Original Title
디디의 우산
Romanization of Original
Didi ui usan
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

ISBN
9781911284932
Page
-

About the Author

Hwang Jungeun
  • Hwang Jungeun
  • Birth : 1976 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Jungeun
  • Family Name : Hwang
  • Korean Name : 황정은
  • ISNI : 0000000118516177
  • Works : 28
About the Original Work
디디의 우산
  • 디디의 우산
  • Author : Hwang Jungeun
  • Published Year : 2019
  • English Title : -
More About the Original Work
Descriptions -
  • English(English)

What was it they were battling? Their smallness, of course, their smallness.

d, a nonbinary gig worker living in Seoul, briefly escapes the grasp of isolation when they meet dd, only to be ensnared by grief when dd dies in a car accident. Meanwhile, the world around them reckons with the 2014 Sewol ferry disaster that left more than 300 dead.

As formally inventive as it is evocative, dd's Umbrella is composed of twin novellas. The first is told from the perspective of d, and the second from the perspective of a writer researching a book they may never write. Both figures dwell in society's margins––queer, working-class, and part of nontraditional family structures.

As people across Korea come together to protest the government's handling of the Sewol ferry disaster, and to impeach the right-wing president in office, the novel examines how progressive movements coexist with social exclusion, particularly of women and sexual minorities, invisibilised in service of the 'greater cause'.

dd's Umbrella is a meditative and off-centre novel about mourning and revolution.

Source: https://lti.overdrive.com/media/10575463?cid=37224

Translated Books2

  • Dd's Umbrella
    English(English) Book
    Dd's Umbrella
    HWANG JUNGEUN / 황정은 / 2023 / -
  • ディディの傘
    Japanese(日本語) Book
    ディディの傘
    ファン・ジョンウン / 황정은 / 2020 / -