Bae Suah
Bae Suah is a South Korean author known for her unconventional and experimental writing style. She has gained recognition for her works that often explore themes of identity, time, and existence. Her novels and short stories have been translated into several languages, bringing her international acclaim.
Books
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1. The Owl's Absence
Set against the backdrop of a bustling city, this introspective narrative delves into the life of a solitary woman who grapples with the complexities of memory, identity, and the passage of time. As she navigates the labyrinth of her thoughts and encounters with enigmatic characters, the story unfolds in a dreamlike manner, blurring the lines between reality and imagination. Through a series of fragmented reflections and poetic musings, the protagonist embarks on a journey of self-discovery, seeking meaning in the ephemeral moments of existence.
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2. Untold Night And Day
A seductive, disorienting novel that manipulates the fragile line between dreams and reality, by South Korea’s leading contemporary writerA startling and boundary-pushing novel, Untold Night and Day tells the story of a young woman’s journey through Seoul over the course of a night and a day. It’s 28-year-old Ayami’s final day at her box-office job in Seoul’s audio theater. Her night is spent walking the sweltering streets of the city with her former boss in search of Yeoni, their missing elderly friend, and her day is spent looking after a mysterious, visiting poet. Their conversations take in art, love, food, and the inaccessible country to the north.Almost immediately, in the heat of Seoul at the height of the summer, order gives way to chaos as the edges of reality start to fray, with Ayami becoming an unwitting escort into a fever-dream of increasingly tangled threads, all the while images of the characters’ overlapping realities repeat, collide, change, and reassert themselves in this masterful work that upends the very structure of fiction and narrative storytelling and burns itself upon the soul of the reader.By one of the boldest and most innovative voices in contemporary Korean literature, and brilliantly realized in English by International Man Booker–winning translator Deborah Smith, Bae Suah’s hypnotic and wholly original novel asks whether more than one version of ourselves can exist at once, demonstrating the malleable nature of reality as we know it.
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