In these indelible short stories, contemporary South Korean author Yun Ko-eun conjures up slightly off-kilter worlds tucked away in the corners of everyday life. Throughout Table for One, comedy and an element of the surreal are interwoven with the hopelessness and loneliness that pervades the protagonistsâ decidedly mundane lives.
In these indelible short stories, contemporary South Korean author Yun Ko-eun conjures up slightly off-kilter worlds tucked away in the corners of everyday life. Throughout Table for One, comedy and an element of the surreal are interwoven with the hopelessness and loneliness that pervades the protagonistsâ decidedly mundane lives.
Yun Ko-eun is the award-winning author of five novels and four short story collections. Born in 1980, she lives in Seoul. Lizzie Buehler is the translator of The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-eun and Korean Teachers by Seo Su-jin. She holds an MFA in literary translation from the University of Iowa and has studied comparative literature at Princeton and Harvard.
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1. Table for One 2. Sweet Escape 3. Invader Graphic 4. Hyeonmong Park's Hall of Dreams 5. Roadkill 6. Time Capsule 1994 7. Iceland 8. Piercing 9. Don't Cry, Hongdo