Lefts Right, Rights Left (Yeoyu): 8 - Softcover

Han Yujoo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1911343653 ISBN 13: 9781911343653

Publisher: Strangers Press, 2019

Synopsis

The story takes place on a stairwell, all in about a minute's time, while the narrator's partner seizes her by the hair. The narrator had gotten caught, after running out of the apartment to try to escape assault. While she tries desperately to avoid falling down the stairs, she has a series of flashbacks about a friend who committed suicide years earlier. In this brief moment, she searches her memories for any signs she may have missed, and feels guilt for not having finished writing his story.

New from Strangers Press, the people who brought you Keshiki, comes their next exciting global collaboration Yeoyu new writing from Korea, a series of eight exquisitely designed chapbooks showcasing some of the best writers writing in Korean today, translated by a team of hugely talented expert translators from across the globe. The series features work from famous names such as Han Kang alongside relative newcomers to an English audience and was selected in collaboration with translation trailblazer and Man Booker International Prize winner, Deborah Smith.

About this title

About the Author

Han Yujoo was born in Seoul in 1982 in 2003 her short story ‘To the Moon,’ won Literature and Society’s New Writers Award and in 2009 she also won the prestigious Hankook Ilbo Literary Award. Her books include the story collections To the Moon (2006), Book of Ice (2009), and My Left Hand the King and My Right Hand the King’s Scribe (2011), as well as the novel The Impossible Fairytale (2013). Han is also a notable translator and has translated Michael Ondaatje’s The Cat’s Table, Geoff Dyer’s But Beautiful and The Ongoing Moment, among others, into Korean. She currently teaches at the Seoul Institute of the Arts and Korea University’s Department of Creative Writing. She is an active member of an experimental group called Rue and runs the indie Oulipopress.

Edition details

• Publisher: Strangers Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1911343653
• ISBN 13: 9781911343653
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 36