To the Kennels: And Other Stories by Pyun, Hye-Young

To the Kennels: And Other Stories

An acclaimed story collection from the author of the Shirley Jackson Award-winning novel The Hole Six elephants...
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To the Kennels: And Other Stories by Pyun, Hye-Young

To the Kennels: And Other Stories

$61.13

To the Kennels: And Other Stories

$61.13
Author: Hye-Young Pyun
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
An acclaimed story collection from the author of the Shirley Jackson Award-winning novel The Hole

Six elephants bolt from an amusement park and vanish; where they're found brings back memories of a forgotten dictator. A car ride on a foggy highway at night becomes a drive through hell for a young couple getting away for the weekend together. A family lives the dream of moving from the city to a brand-new bedroom town in the country, only to be plagued by debt and fears of eviction, while the sound of incessant barking rings from the kennels nearby. In a city built on the site of ancient tombs, a homeowner's renovation of a broken wall leads to an outcome no one expected. Older workers hired to play characters from a folk tale and wear smiles no one believes. An accountant asked to cook the books for his boss. A would-be writer disapppointed in her students and her choices.

These are some of the premises and characters in Hye-young Pyun's To the Kennels, winner of one of Korea's most prestigious literary awards. Infused with psychological acuity, understated suspense, a touch of the uncanny, and her Kafkaesque take on the contemporary world, To the Kennels offers a thrilling, unsettling ride through territory that is both familiar and strange. As Un-su Kim, author of The Plotters has observed, she "reveals to us the cellular division of emotions we've never seen before."


Author: Hye-Young Pyun
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Published: 10/01/2024
Pages: 184
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.74lbs
ISBN: 9781956763669

About the Author
Hye-young Pyun was born in 1972 in Seoul and earned her undergraduate degree in creative writing and graduate degree in Korean literature from Hanyang University. Her published works include the short story collections Aoi Garden, To the Kennels, Evening Courtship, and Night Passes; and the novels City of Ash and Red, They Went to the Western Forest, The Law of Lines, The Hole, and Let the Dead. She has received many awards in Korea, including the Hankook Ilbo Literary Award, the Yi Hyo-Seok Literature Prize, the Today's Young Writer Award, the Dong-in Literary Award, the Yi Sang Literary Award, and the Contemporary Literature (Hyundai Munhak) Award. Her novel TheHole was the 2017 winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, and City of Ash and Red was an NPR Great Read. In 2019, she was awarded the Kim Yujeong Literary Award for her short story "Hotel Window." Her short stories have been published in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and Words Without Borders. She currently teaches creative writing at Myongji University and lives in Seoul, Korea.

Sora Kim-Russell's translations include, besides The Hole, City of Ash and Red, The Law of Lines, and The Owl Cries by Hye-young Pyun, Un-su Kim's The Plotters; Hwang Sok-yong's At Dusk, which was longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize; and Suah Bae's Nowhere to be Found. Her full list of publications can be found at sorakimrussell.com. She lives in Seoul, Korea.

Heinz Insu Fenkl's first novel, Memories of My Ghost Brother, was a Barnes and Noble "Great New Writer" selection and a PEN/Hemingway finalist. He has served on the editorial board of AZALEA: the Journal of Korean Literature & Culture and is a consulting editor for Words Without Borders. His translation of Kim Man-jung's seventeenth-century Buddhist novel, The Nine Cloud Dream, was published by Penguin Classics and his most recent novel, Skull Water, is one of The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023. He lives in the Hudson Valley, north of New York City.

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