Fiction
The Low Hills of Seoul
Dec 14, 2016 |
By Bae Suah |
Translated
from Korean
Several times already now, I’ve had the idea of visiting the houses I’ve left behind. Grasshoppers spring up around my feet, transparent carapaces propelled into the air as I cross the dirt yard and approach the cement buildings, their desiccated structures hard and dry as stale bread, and riddled with holes.
Author
Bae Suah
Bae Suah has been widely acclaimed as one of Korea’s most innovative contemporary writers. Her debut novel, A Dark Room, was published in 1988, and she has since published two collections of short fiction and a number of other novels. Her prizes include the Dongseo Literary Prize (2004) and the Hankook Ilbo Literary Prize (2003). She lives in Germany.
