{"product_id":"flowers-of-mold-other-stories-paperback","title":"Flowers of Mold \u0026 Other Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSeong-Nan Ha\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJanet Hong\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the surface, Ha Seong-nan's stories seem pleasant enough, yet there's something disturbing just below the surface, ready to permanently disrupt the characters' lives. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA woman meets her next-door neighbor and loans her a spatula, then starts suffering horrific gaps in her memory. A man, feeling jilted by an unrequited love, becomes obsessed with sorting through his neighbors' garbage in the belief that it will teach him how to better relate to people. A landlord decides to raise the rent, and his tenants hatch a plan to kill him at a team-building retreat. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn ten captivating, unnerving stories, \u003ci\u003eFlowers of Mold\u003c\/i\u003e presents a range of ordinary individuals--male and female, young and old--who have found themselves left behind by an increasingly urbanized and fragmented world. The latest in the trend of brilliant female Korean authors to appear in English, Ha cuts like a surgeon, and even the most mundane objects become menacing and unfamiliar under her scalpel.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHa Seong-Nan\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Seoul in 1967 and made her literary debut in 1996, after her graduation from the Seoul Institute of the Arts. She is the author of five short story collections--including \u003ci\u003eBluebeard's First Wife\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Woman Next Door\u003c\/i\u003e--and three novels. Over her career, she's received a number of prestigious awards, such as the Dongin Literature Award in 1999, Hankook Ilbo Literature Prize in 2000, the Isu Literature Prize in 2004, the Oh Yeong-su Literary Award in 2008, and the Contemporary Literature (Hyundae Munhak) Award in 2009. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJanet Hong\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and translator based in Vancouver, Canada. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eBrick: A Literary Journal, Lit Hub, Asia Literary Review, Words Without Borders, \u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eKorea Times.\u003c\/i\u003e She has received PEN American Center's PEN\/Heim Translation Fund, the Modern Korean Literature Translation Award, and grants from English PEN, LTI Korea, and the Daesan Foundation. Her translations include Han Yujoo's \u003ci\u003eThe Impossible Fairy Tale\u003c\/i\u003e, Ancco's \u003ci\u003eBad Friends\u003c\/i\u003e, and Ha Seong-nan's \u003ci\u003eFlowers of Mold\u003c\/i\u003e. She also translates works by Bae Suah and Kim Soom, among others.\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 23, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44312887492710,"sku":"9781940953960","price":23.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/dHBIQ0FOcGJqSWZzTStqSGppd0dYZz09.webp?v=1767916246","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/flowers-of-mold-other-stories-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}