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02791aam a22003738i 4500 001 CD778710013611EFB509D4AA50ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240423010034 008 231013s2024 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2023042657 020 $a 0231192037 020 $a 9780231192033 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 041 $a eng $h kor 050 00 $a PL994.96.K65 $b A61213 2024 082 00 $2 23/eng/20231017 100 1 $a Yun, Ko-eun, $d 1980- $e author. 240 10 $a 1-inyong sikt'ak. $l English 245 10 $a TABLE FOR ONE : $b STORIES / $c Ko-eun Yun ; translated by Lizzie Buehler. 263 $a 2404 264 1 $a New York : $b Columbia University Press, $c 2024. 300 $a pages cm 490 0 $a Weatherhead books on Asia 500 $a 2024/04/09 505 0 $a Table for One -- Sweet Escape -- Invader Graphic -- Hyeonmong Park's Hall of Dreams -- Roadkill -- Time Capsule 1994 -- Iceland -- Piercing -- Don't Cry, Hongdo. 520 $a "An office worker who has no one to eat lunch with enrolls in a course that builds confidence about eating alone. A man with a pathological fear of bedbugs offers up his body to save his building from infestation. A time capsule in Seoul is dug up hundreds of years before it was intended to be unearthed. A vending machine repairman finds himself trapped in a shrinking motel during a never-ending snowstorm. In these and other indelible short stories, contemporary South Korean author Yun Ko-eun conjures upslightly off-kilter worlds tucked away in the corners of everyday life. Her fiction is bursting with images that toe the line between realism and the fantastic. Throughout Table for One, comedy and an element of the surreal are interwoven with the hopelessness and loneliness that pervades the protagonists' decidedly mundane lives. Yun's stories focus on solitary city dwellers, and her eccentric, often dreamlike humor highlights their sense of isolation. Mixing quirky and melancholy commentary on densely packed urban life, she calls attention to the toll of rapid industrialization and the displacement of traditional culture. Acquainting the English-speaking audience with one of South Korea's breakout young writers, Table for One presents a parade of misfortunes that speak to all readers in their unconventional universality"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Yun, Ko-eun, $d 1980- $v Translations into English. 655 7 $a Short stories. $2 lcgft $9 164681 700 1 $a Buehler, Lizzie, $e translator. 776 08 $i Online version: 776 08 $a Yun, Ko-eun, 1980- $t Table for one $d New York : Columbia University Press, 2024 $z 9780231549622 $w (DLC) 2023042658 941 $a 1 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20240423010211.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CD778710013611EFB509D4AA50ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search