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Title Statement | Flowers of mold: stories / Ha Seong-Nan ; translated from the Korean by Janet Hong. |
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Series | Korean literature series |
Author | Ha, Seong-Nan |
Additional Contributors | Hong, Janet |
Publication | Rochester, New York: Open Letter,2019. |
Edition | First edition. |
Extent of Item | 212 pages ; |
ISBN | 1940953960 (pbk.) 9781940953960 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 3578673 |
General Notes | Short stories. |
Contents | Waxen wings -- Nightmare -- The retreat -- The woman next door -- Flag -- Your rearview mirror -- Flowers of mold -- Toothpaste -- Early beans -- Onion. |
Summary | A 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. |
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By Topic | Neighbors--Fiction |
Apartment houses--Fiction |