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Bluebeard’s First Wife by Ha Seong-nan, review: pertinent short story collection from celebrated Korean author

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Article
https://inews.co.uk/culture/books/bluebeards-first-wife-by-ha-seong-nan-review-short-stories-korean-author-443713
Journal
inews
Issued Date
June 12, 2020
Page
-
Language
English(English)
Country
UNITED KINGDOM
City
-
Book
Bluebeard's First Wife
Writer
Ha Seong-nan
Translator
Janet Hong

About the Author

  • Ha Seong-nan
  • Birth : 1967 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Seong-nan
  • Family Name : Ha
  • Korean Name : 하성란
  • ISNI : 0000000084812321
  • Works : 13
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  • English(English)

In Korean writer Ha Seong-nan’s most recently translated work, apparently ordinary characters and situations surreptitiously slip off-kilter. These stories act as acute reminders of how our supposedly normal lives can quickly become much stranger. Take “On That Green, Green Grass”, for example: a couple purchases a pet dog to stand in for the noisy happiness they imagined their child, whose disability means he is “more like a still-life object”, would provide. After their dog goes missing, the parents nosedive into a spiral of obsession and neglect. It is an agonisingly honest read about expectations of marital bliss.

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