Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Easily share your publications and get them in front of Issuu’s. Jo Kyung Ran made her literary debut in when her short story “The French Optical” won the Dong-a Ilbo New Writer’s Contest. She is the author of the short story collections Looking for the Elephant () and The Story of a Ladle (), I Bought a Balloon (), Philosophy of Sunday (), and the novels Time for Baking Bread (), Tongue (), and Blowfish (). Tongue by Kyung Ran Jo An erotically charged, elegantly written novel that marks the first publication in English of author Kyung Ran Jo, a glamorous literary star in Korea who has earned comparisons to Haruki Murakami, Banana Yoshimoto, and Alessandro Baricco.
Emotionally raw and emphatically sensual, Tongue is the story of the demise of an obsessive romance, and a woman's culinary journey toward self-restoration and revenge. When her boyfriend of seven years leaves her for another woman, the celebrated. There are some decent morsels to Tongue, but the meal as a whole is rather baffling -- a vast mix of unmatched, overseasoned, incorrectly cooked dishes. An editor would have sent it back into the kitchen. South Korean author Jo Kyung-ran (조경란) was born in An erotically charged, elegantly written novel that marks the first publication in English of author Kyung-Ran Jo, a literary star in Korea who has earned comparisons to Haruki Murakami. Emotionally raw and emphatically sensual, "Tongue "is the story of the demise of an obsessive romance and a woman's culinary journey toward self-restoration and revenge.
Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Easily share your publications and get them in front of Issuu’s. Kyung-Ran Jo's novel "Tongue" is a slender volume that provides a glimpse into the pressured lives of 21st Century Koreans. 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Korea is still divided. Massive armies on both sides of the border are trapped in a perpetual ceasefire. There is no true peace. Jo Kyung Ran was born in Seoul in where she went on to study creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts, but did not decide to become a writer until she turned Jo lived in Bonngcheon-dong for nearly 20 years in a small rooftop apartment which her father built for her.
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