Table for One: Stories

An office worker who has no one to eat lunch with enrolls in a course that builds...
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Author: Ko-Eun Yun
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Language: English
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Table for One: Stories by Yun, Ko-Eun

Table for One: Stories

$75.50

Table for One: Stories

$75.50
Author: Ko-Eun Yun
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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 up slightly 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.

Author: Ko-Eun Yun
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 04/09/2024
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780231192033


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2024
Booklist 03/15/2024 pg. 42

About the Author
Yun Ko-eun is the award-winning author of three novels and three short story collections. Born in 1980, she lives in Seoul.

Lizzie Buehler is a translator from Korean and an MFA student in literary translation at the University of Iowa.

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