Author: Sung-hee Yoon
Publisher: Changbi
273 pages | 215*146mm
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About This Book
This is the third collection of short stories by Yoon Sung-hee, who is
noted for works that softly and warmly summons lives that, like grains
of sand, bear a reality full of pain and despair. It gathers eleven
works including “The Unfinished Words,” the winner of the Isu Literary
Award in 2007, “A Sneeze,” the finalist for the Hwang Sun-won Literary
Award and the Hankook Ilbo Literary Award in 2006, and “Knees.” The
author’s works, which at a glance lack order yet are satisfying and
entertaining, revive even figures and incidents that can be hackneyed
and insipid in a world of facetious and extravagant lies and even
mention anecdotes about tragic and dark everyday lives as if they were
mere jokes. In revealing a sense of solidarity that is seemingly
indifferent to emotional scars and ruptures, they are amply consoling. A
series of simple sentences without special literary rhetoric, Yoon’s
works consist of stories (moments) that crisscross, intermingle, and
continue endlessly, combining the tragic and the comic. They are
characterized by brief and rapid sentences and heartwarming humor that
shine forth even in a few sentences. The most prolific writer born in
the 1970’s, she is perfecting her mastery, which amply moves even
without a sensuous style or eye-catching descriptions. Yoon’s works,
which even readers who simply want to savor the joy of reading instead
of being deeply moved or edified will find hard to put down, are no
doubt the life and energy of Korean fiction today.
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