DD's Umbrella
Published 2024
Paperback, 180 pages
Price: £13.99
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Synopsis
Why we love it
The book contains two novellas, which have such distinct voices you could be forgiven for thinking they were by different authors.
The first story is centered around would-be life partners D and DD. Above all, we follow D as they grapple with the grief of unexpectedly losing a partner.
The second story is from a writer researching their next book. The narrator reflects on family, ambition, inspiration, and what it means to be an adult.
What was it they were battling? Their smallness, of course, their smallness.
A delicate and arresting queer novel from one of Korea’s most celebrated contemporary writers.
d, a nonbinary gig worker living in Seoul,...
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Born in 1976, Hwang Jungeun is one of the bright young things of Korean literature, having published three collections of short stories and four novels to date. One Hundred Shadows (2010), her first novel, was both a critical and commercial success; its mix of oblique fantasy, hard-edge social critique, and offbeat romance garnered the Hankook Ilbo Literary Award and the Korean Booksellers’ Award. Her next novel I’ll Go On, translated by e. yaewon was published in 2018 and received the Daesan Literary Prize.
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