Bluebeard's first wife : stories / Ha Seong-nan ; translated from the Korean by Janet Hong.
A woman spends a night with her fiance and his friends, and overhears a terrible secret. A man grows increasingly agitated by the apartment noise made by a young family living upstairs. A couple moves into a picture-perfect country house, but when their new dog is stolen, they become obsessed with finding the thief. Ha's paranoia-inducing, heart-quickening stories will have you reconsidering your own neighbors.
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- ISBN: 9781948830171 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 229 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Rochester, New York : Open Letter, 2020.
- Copyright: ©2020.
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Formatted Contents Note: | The star-shaped stain --Bluebeard's first wife -- Flies -- Night poaching -- O father -- Joy to the world -- The dress shirt -- On that green, green grass -- A quiet night -- Pinky finger -- Daisy Fleabane. |
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Subject: | Short stories, Korean > Translations into English. |
Genre: | Short stories. |
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A woman spends a night with her fiance and his friends, and overhears a terrible secret. A man grows increasingly agitated by the apartment noise made by a young family living upstairs. A couple moves into a picture-perfect country house, but when their new dog is stolen, they become obsessed with finding the thief. Ha's paranoia-inducing, heart-quickening stories will have you reconsidering your own neighbors.