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Deborah Smith

Deborah Smith

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Translated Books
Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, Han Kang’s The White Book is a meditation on color, as well as an attempt to make sense of her older sister’s death, who died in her mother’s arms just...
In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woman, for day by...

Human Acts 2017

Amid a violent student uprising in South Korea, a young boy named Dong-ho is shockingly killed. The story of this tragic episode unfolds in a sequence of interconnected chapters as the victims and...
A woman suddenly stops eating meat after a disturbing dream, a decision that shocks her husband and disrupts their marriage. What begins as a personal change quickly escalates into family conflict, as...