Plant Wife

내여자의열매

A collection of short stories by Han Jiang, a Nobel Prize candidate and the first Asian winner of the Man Booker International Prize. He has won the Italian Malaparte Prize, the Spanish San Clemente Prize, was shortlisted for the Dublin International Literary Prize, and was awarded the Writer of the Year award for Norway's Future Library project.
As a backbone of the Korean literary world, Han Kang is very likely to become an important candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature among contemporary Korean writers.
-- Nobel Prize winner in Literature and leading figure in French literature Jean-Claude Le Clézio ◆ It is eight times more brilliant than The Vegetarian and won the Korean Novel Literature Award with only one-eighth of its content.
Flowers and beasts, plants and iron, blindness and falling, dreams of escape and injured feet, failed love, broken family ties and us wandering in a world without hope.
◆A low-level person who holds a knife in his heart and saves himself from danger again and again.
A wife who turned into a plant, a housewife who ran away from home, a girl who resolutely became a nun, a mother with a knife in her heart, and a couple who were unable to maintain their love.
◆Directly translated from Korean by Professor Cui Youxue of Minzu University of China, the cover was specially drawn by the super popular illustrator Lu Mao, and the binding design was undertaken by designer Fu Shiyi. The inner and outer covers are hardcover with laser hot stamping.
This collection consists of eight novellas and short stories. Han Jiang captures fleeting feelings and impressions in these clashes, depicting the complexities of fate with beautiful and vivid language. His explorations of the darker sides of human relationships shimmer with dazzling light. This collection of short stories focuses on those "underprivileged," with each protagonist wandering like an orphan in a hopeless world. They emerge from hotel rooms in remote towns, rooms at the end of examination hall corridors, dark basements, and the dead ends of multi-family homes and high-rise apartment buildings, traversing dark stairways and unlit alleyways to the teeming, weary streets of the city. Yet, even if they leave behind the weary and miserable lives of countless cities to live in secluded seaside towns or remote port cities, they ultimately return to the city; this is their destiny. Amidst the city's clamor, pollution, and complex interpersonal relationships, they lack a paradise or a mother to embrace and comfort them. Paradise and mother exist only in dreams or beyond the dead. Their world is their father's, a world of evil and coldness. That is the real world, filled with snakes, the numbers 13 and 4, and cold ironwork, and it is there that the characters in Han Jiang's novel will be reborn.

2023-03-01

四川文艺出版社

Motie Books

344

9787541165320