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Ian Mond Reviews Table for One by Yun Ko-Eun

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Ian Mond Reviews Table for One by Yun Ko-Eun
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https://locusmag.com/2024/05/ian-mond-reviews-table-for-one-by-yun-ko-eun/?utm_content=bufferec52b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Journal
LOCUS
Issued Date
May 07, 2024
Page
-
Language
English(English)
Country
UNITED KINGDOM
City
-
Book
TABLE for ONE
Writer
Yun Ko Eun
Translator
LIZZIE BUEHLER

About the Author

Yun Ko Eun
  • Yun Ko Eun
  • Birth : 1980 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Ko Eun
  • Family Name : Yun
  • Korean Name : 윤고은
  • ISNI : 0000000460164576
  • Works : 14
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  • English(English)

Yun Ko-eun (the pen name for Ko Eun-ju) will be unfamiliar to most English-language readers unless they’ve read her one translated novel, The Disaster Tourist. In South Korea, though, she’s the multiple award-winning author of several novels and short story collections and the host of the EBS Radio show Book Cafe. Thankfully, we now get to enjoy a little more of Yun Ko-eun’s work with the English language publication of her 2018 collection Table for One (translated by Lizzie Buehler) sporting a fetching cover of a zebra eating instant noodles (who, sadly, does not feature in any of the stories). With an emphasis on individual obsessions – whether it be a fixation on bedbugs, Iceland, body piercing, or dreams – these nine subtly surreal tales depict people at their most vulnerable and isolated, dislocated from those around them.

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