Anne Weber

May 31, 2023 | wordswithoutborders.org | Tobias Carroll |Cheon Myeong-kwan |Dino Buzzati |Anne Weber

From Archipelago Books | Whale by Cheon Myeong-kwan, translated from the Korean by Chi-Young Kim | Fiction | 400 pages | ISBN 9781953861146 | US$22.00 What the publisher says: “Whale, set in a remote village in South Korea, follows the lives of three linked characters: Geumbok, an extremely ambitious woman who has been chasing an indescribable thrill ever since she first saw a whale crest in the ocean; her mute daughter, Chunhui, who communicates with elephants; and a one-eyed woman who...