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Highway with Green Apples
Bae Suah, Sora Kim-Russell (translation)Highway with Green Apples was originally published in Day One, a weekly literary journal dedicated to short fiction & poetry from emerging writers. The story was previously published in Korean in Fiction & Thought (Soseolgwa sasang), summer 1994.
Award-winning Korean writer Bae Suah tells the story of a young woman in search of meaning as she considers her fate in modern Seoul. For this aspiring artist, there seems to be no escape from life’s monotony. After leaving her family under the pretense of having fallen in love, she resigns herself to a solitary life rather than succumb to the relentless cultural pressure she feels to exchange her freedom for marriage.
Numb to sex & unmoved by love, she begins to lose her grip on reality as those around her fall short of their own aspirations. Confused about the interplay between past & present & unsure of her own desire to live into the future, Highway with Green Apples is a surreal & mesmerizing tale of a young life slowly unraveling.
About the Author
Bae Suah, one of the most highly acclaimed contemporary Korean authors, has published more than a dozen works & won several prestigious awards. She has also translated several books from the German, including works by W. G. Sebald, Franz Kafka, & Jenny Erpenbeck. Her first book to appear in English, Nowhere to be Found, was longlisted for a PEN Translation Prize & the Best Translated Book Award.
Sora Kim-Russell is a literary translator based in Seoul. Her recent publications include Kim Un-su’s The Plotters, Hwang Sok-yong’s At Dusk, & Pyun Hye-young’s City of Ash & Red. She has taught literary translation at the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference, Literature Translation Institute of Korea, & Ewha Womans University.
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