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One Hundred Shadows
- Author
- Hwang Jungeun
- Narrator
- Greta Jung
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish Date
- 20 August 2024
- Run Time
- 3 hours 3 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Han Kang’s Human Acts meets Yoko Ogawa’s The Memory Police in this understated South Korean novella in translation: a restrained yet emotional magical realist examination of futility in a capitalist society written in response to the 2009 Yongsan Disaster.
With an introduction from Han Kang, International Booker Prize-winning author of The Vegetarian and recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in literature!
In a Seoul slum marked for demolition, residents’ shadows have begun to rise. No one knows how or why–but, they warn each other, do not follow your shadow if it wanders away.
As the landscape of their lives is torn apart, building by building, electronics-repair-shop employees Eungyo and Mujae can only watch as their community begins to fade. Their growing connection with one another provides solace, but against an uncaring ruling class and the inevitability of the rising shadows, their relationship may not be enough.
Winner of the Hankook Ilbo Literary Award and the Korean Bookseller’s Award, One Hundred Shadows is a tender working-class perspective with subtle and affecting social commentary. This edition features an introduction by Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Vegetarian, Han Kang, a historical note about the Yongsan tragedy that inspired One Hundred Shadows, and an exclusive interview with the
“Affecting. … It’s rare for a story to be so dense in social meaning yet so lightly composed.”—The Nation
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Details
- Author
- Hwang Jungeun
- Narrator
- Greta Jung
- Duration
- 3 hours 3 minutes
- Release Date
- 20 August 2024
- ISBN
- 9798892738927
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Genre
- Magical realism, Fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Sense of place
Synopsis
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER!Han Kang’s Human Acts meets Yoko Ogawa’s The Memory Police in this understated South Korean novella in translation: a restrained yet emotional magical realist examination of futility in a capitalist society written in response to the 2009 Yongsan Disaster.With an introduction from Han Kang, International Booker Prize-winning author of The Vegetarian and recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in literature!In a Seoul slum marked for demolition, residents’ shadows have begun to rise. No one knows how or why–but, they warn each other, do not follow your shadow if it wanders away. As the landscape of their lives is torn apart, building by building, electronics-repair-shop employees Eungyo and Mujae can only watch as their community begins to fade. Their growing connection with one another provides solace, but against an uncaring ruling class and the inevitability of the rising shadows, their relationship may not be enough. Winner of the Hankook Ilbo Literary Award and the Korean Bookseller’s Award, One Hundred Shadows is a tender working-class perspective with subtle and affecting social commentary. This edition features an introduction by Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Vegetarian, Han Kang, a historical note about the Yongsan tragedy that inspired One Hundred Shadows, and an exclusive interview with the “Affecting. … It’s rare for a story to be so dense in social meaning yet so lightly composed.”—The Nation
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