Blowfish
Autor Kyung-Ran Jo Traducere de Chi-Young Kimen Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 iul 2025
'A book to chew on and savour, a deft delve into the intricacies of love and art'
Chicago Review of Books
'The narrative scatters the quiet beauty of human connection like constellations'
Kyung-sook Shin, author Please Look After Mom and Violets
'[A] strange, dark, lovely novel'
Lit Hub
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'If you wanted to end your life instantly, perfectly, you needed practice and preparation.'
A sculptor and architect cross paths once in Seoul, and they meet again in Tokyo.
The sculptor has decided she is going to die. She is learning to prepare a fatal serving of blowfish. This was how her grandmother killed herself, in front of her husband and child. Delicate, artful but with a sense of guaranteed finality.
The architect's life has been marred by death. His elder brother leapt to his death from the fifth floor of an apartment building. He too is pondering his own exit from this life.
For the woman, the man is a pitstop on the road to her own suicide. For the man, the woman is a way to forestall his death and offer him an exit. Through the impressions they leave on each other, they reflect on their own lives.
Taking readers through various urban spaces of Seoul and Tokyo, Blowfish delves into the inner lives of two people contemplating their failures in love and art.
What truly makes life worth living?
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781662601781
ISBN-10: 1662601786
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 142 x 214 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Astra Publishing House
ISBN-10: 1662601786
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 142 x 214 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Astra Publishing House
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Recenzii
Jo's atmospheric writing distills the novel's mood from its settings (Seoul is "the color of oxidized blood"; a Tokyo fish market is "slick and slimy with water and blood and discarded guts"), while details about the sculptor's family history inform her chilling determination to die. It's a memorable existential tale.
Remarkably lyrical . . . Blowfish is composed with a simmering desperation Jo manages with impressive control; Kim is again a splendid translator . . . Jo's complex exploration of living and dying becomes a mindful journey toward possibilities.
'If you wanted to end your life instantly, perfectly, you needed practice and preparation.'
A sculptor and architect cross paths once in Seoul, and they meet again in Tokyo.
The sculptor has decided she is going to die. She is learning to prepare a fatal serving of blowfish. This was how her grandmother killed herself, in front of her husband and child. Delicate, artful but with a sense of guaranteed finality.
The architect's life has been marred by death. His elder brother leapt to his death from the fifth floor of an apartment building. He too is pondering his own exit from this life.
For the woman, the man is a pitstop on the road to her own suicide. For the man, the woman is way to forestall his death and offer him an exit. Through the impressions they leave on each other, they reflect on their own lives.
Taking readers through various urban spaces of Seoul and Tokyo, Blowfish delves into the inner lives of two people contemplating their failures in love and art. What truly makes life worth living?
[ISBN: 9781035435234, RRP: £14.99]
Remarkably lyrical . . . Blowfish is composed with a simmering desperation Jo manages with impressive control; Kim is again a splendid translator . . . Jo's complex exploration of living and dying becomes a mindful journey toward possibilities.
'If you wanted to end your life instantly, perfectly, you needed practice and preparation.'
A sculptor and architect cross paths once in Seoul, and they meet again in Tokyo.
The sculptor has decided she is going to die. She is learning to prepare a fatal serving of blowfish. This was how her grandmother killed herself, in front of her husband and child. Delicate, artful but with a sense of guaranteed finality.
The architect's life has been marred by death. His elder brother leapt to his death from the fifth floor of an apartment building. He too is pondering his own exit from this life.
For the woman, the man is a pitstop on the road to her own suicide. For the man, the woman is way to forestall his death and offer him an exit. Through the impressions they leave on each other, they reflect on their own lives.
Taking readers through various urban spaces of Seoul and Tokyo, Blowfish delves into the inner lives of two people contemplating their failures in love and art. What truly makes life worth living?
[ISBN: 9781035435234, RRP: £14.99]