Beauty Looks Down on Me
Beauty Looks Down On Me is a collection of by turns sad and funny stories about the thwarted expectations of the young as they grow older. HeeKyung’s characters are misfits who by virtue of their bodies or their lack of social status are left to dream of momentous changes that will never come. Unsatisfied with work, with family, with friends, they lose themselves in diets, books, and blogs. Heekyung’s collection humorously but humanely depicts the loneliness and monotony found in many modern lives.
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Beauty Looks Down on Me
Beauty Looks Down On Me is a collection of by turns sad and funny stories about the thwarted expectations of the young as they grow older. HeeKyung’s characters are misfits who by virtue of their bodies or their lack of social status are left to dream of momentous changes that will never come. Unsatisfied with work, with family, with friends, they lose themselves in diets, books, and blogs. Heekyung’s collection humorously but humanely depicts the loneliness and monotony found in many modern lives.
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Overview

Beauty Looks Down On Me is a collection of by turns sad and funny stories about the thwarted expectations of the young as they grow older. HeeKyung’s characters are misfits who by virtue of their bodies or their lack of social status are left to dream of momentous changes that will never come. Unsatisfied with work, with family, with friends, they lose themselves in diets, books, and blogs. Heekyung’s collection humorously but humanely depicts the loneliness and monotony found in many modern lives.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781628971774
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Publication date: 05/26/2017
Series: Library of Korean Literature
Pages: 208
Sales rank: 1,074,858
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Eun Heekyung made her entrance to the Korean literary scene in 1995 with her short novel Duet. The next year won the Munhakdongne Fiction Award for her novel A Gift from a Bird, which portrayed the world of adults through the skeptical eyes of a 12 year old narrator. Since her debut she has written 10 books, including six collections of short stories and four novels. Secrets and Lies, published in 2005, is the three-generation story of two interrelated families.

Yoonjin Park and Craig Bott are married and live in Canada with their two daughters. This is their first published translation.

Yoonjin Park and Craig Bott are married and live in Canada with their two daughters. This is their first published translation.

Sora Kim-Russell is a Korean-American poet and translator originally from California and now living in Seoul, South Korea. Her translations include Gong Ji-young’s Our Happy Times (Short Books, 2014) and Shin Kyung-sook’s I’ll Be Right There (Other Press, 2014). She teaches at Ewha Womans University.

Jae Won Chung was born in Seoul and lives in New York.

Table of Contents

Beauty Looks Down on Me 3

Discovery of Solitude 39

Weather and Life 75

Map Addict 103

Praising Doubt 143

Yuri Gagarin's Blue Star 173

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