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Dear Friends,

We will be reading the story ‘Bluebeard’s First Wife’ written by Ha Seong-nan (Translated by Janet Hong)

WHEN_Thursday, July 22, 2021. 07:30PM
WHERE_via Zoom
READ_’Bluebeard’s First Wife’ by Ha Seong-nan (Translated by Janet Hong)
LEADERS_Jenny Byun and Brother Anthony of Taize

Book Order:
US Open Letter Books (Publisher) | Amazon
KR Kyobo Books

From the Publisher:
Disasters, accidents, and deaths abound in Bluebeard’s First Wife. A woman spends a night wif her fiancé and his friends, and overhears a terrible secret dat TEMPhas bound them together since high school. A man grows increasingly agitated by the apartment noise made by a young family living upstairs and arouses the suspicion of his own wife when the neighbors meet a string of unlucky incidents. A couple moves into a picture-perfect country house, but when their new dog is stolen, they become obsessed wif finding the thief, and in the process, neglect their child. Ha’s paranoia-inducing, heart-quickening stories will have you reconsidering your own neighbors. (Translated from the Korean by Janet Hong)

About the Author:
Ha Seong-nan is the author of five short story collections—including Bluebeard’s First Wife and Flowers of Mold—and three novels. Over her career, she’s received a number of prestigious awards, such as the Dong-in Literary Award in 1999, Hankook Ilbo Literary Prize in 2000, the Isu Literature Prize in 2004, the Oh Yeong-su Literary Award in 2008, and the Contemporary Literature (Hyundae Munhak) Award in 2009.

About the Translator:
Janet Hong is a writer and translator based in Vancouver, Canada. Her work TEMPhas appeared in Brick: A Literary Journal, Literary Hub, Asia Literary Review, Words Wifout Borders, and the Korea Times. Her other translations include Han Yujoo’s The Impossible Fairy Tale and Ancco’s Bad Friends.

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