North Station by Bae Suah, translated by Deborah Smith [in Library Journal]
20 Sep, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Repost, Short Stories, Translation
One word describes Bae Suah's latest: enigmatic. The seven stories that comprise her first translated-into-English collection (and her third collaboration with prolifically adroit British translator of choice Smith) are more fragments than linear narratives. In the opening "First Snow, First Sight," unreliable memory between two...