A woman sells her daughter to a passing beekeeper for two jars of honey. A baby weighing fifteen pounds is born in the depths of winter but named “Girl of Spring.” A storm brings down the roof of a ramshackle restaurant to reveal a hidden fortune. These are just a few of the events that set Myeong-kwan Cheon’s beautifully crafted, wild world in motion.\nWhale, set in a remote village in South Korea, follows the lives of many linked characters, including Geumbok, an extremely ambitious woman who has been chasing an indescribable thrill ever since she first saw a whale crest in the ocean; her mute daughter, Chunhui, who communicates with elephants; and a one-eyed woman who controls honeybees with a whistle.\nBrimming with surprises and wicked humor, Whale is an adventure-satire of epic proportions by one of the most original voices in international literature.

Whale

Cheon, Myeong-kwan

Europa Editions

Whale: SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2023

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Europa Editions (UK) Ltd

Forty-year-old In-mo, a movie director who's been jobless for the past decade decides to move in with his widowed mother. His older brother, with five criminal convictions, has already moved back. Then younger sister Mi-yeon arrives with her bratty, rebellious fifteen-year-old daughter. Mom is delighted to have her entire dysfunctional family back again, but what ensues is both comic and frightening.
Fast-paced and imaginative, Modern Family introduces English-speaking readers to a bright new voice in world literature.
Cheon Myeong-Kwan won the Tenth Munhakdongne Novel Award for The Queen of Red Bricks. Modern Family has been made into a movie in Korea.

Modern Family (Korean Voices, 19)

Literary

White Pine Press

Rosanna de Iudicibus

Edizioni e/o

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2023

Whale (Korean edition)

Mun Hakdongne

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