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Memoir of a Joseon Bride (Pre-order)

Memoir of a Joseon Bride (Pre-order)

Djuna (translated by Adrian Thieret, Jihyun Park, Gord Sellar)

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  • Designed by Sangnok.kr
  • 274 pages
  • Published
  • 9781915829443 (pb) / 9781915829450 (e)

Author | Translator

Djuna is a novelist and film critic. For more than thirty years they have published as a faceless writer, refusing to reveal personal details regarding age, gender, or legal name. Widely considered to be one of South Korea’s most important science fiction writers, Djuna has published five essays, eleven short-story collections and thirteen novels including Counterweight, Not Yet Gods, Jezebel, The Proxy War and more.

Adrian Thieret is Instructor of Asian Studies at the University of Manitoba, where he teaches Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language and literature. He holds a PhD in Chinese from Stanford University.

Jihyun Park is a South Korean translator and filmmaker whose debut, the award-winning “The Music of Jo Hyeja” (2012) was the first Korean-language film adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft story. Her recent projects include work on a documentary involving the life stories of elderly working women in the Sejong City area. Learn more about it and her other film work at brutalrice.com

Gord Sellar is a Canadian musician and author who has lived in South Korea almost continuously since the last day of 2001. A graduate of the Creative Writing M.A. program at Concordia University, he attended Clarion West in 2006. His short stories and novellas have been widely published and appeared in a number of Year's Best collections, and he has published occasional scholarship as well as a long-running blog about Korean SF. He was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2009. His website is gordsellar.com

The stories brought together in this collection introduce the dazzling speculative imaginings of Djuna, one of South Korea’s most provocative science-fiction writers. Whether describing how a species of interplanetary machines brings Korea’s North-South divide into the heavens or satirizing the vampiric nature of Confucian patriarchy, these stories evoke a universe at once familiar and clearly fantastical. Blending influences ranging from genre fiction (zombie, vampire, science-fiction, you name it) to Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Djuna’s stories illuminate the past, present, and possible futures.

Praised by Publisher’s Weekly as an “impressive collection which showcases the power of speculative fiction to illuminate the human condition,” Memoir of a Joseon Bride is an outstanding work by one of science-fiction’s most mysterious authors.

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