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No One Writes Back: A Novel
Jang Eun-jin (Ǔn-jin Chang), Yewon Jung (translation)Communication—or the lack thereof—is the subject of this sly update of the picaresque. No One Writes Backis the story of a young man who leaves home with only his blind dog, an MP3 player, & a book, traveling aimlessly for three years, from motel to motel, meeting people on the road. Rather than learn the names of his fellow travelers—or invent nicknames for them—he assigns them numbers. There's 239, for example, who once dreamed of being a poet, but who now only reads her poems to a friend in a coma; there's 109, who rides trains endlessly because of a broken heart; & 32, who's already decided to commit suicide.
The narrator writes letters to these men & women in the hope that he can console them in their various miseries, as well as keep a record of his own experiences: "A letter is like a journal entry for me, except that it gets sent to other people." No one writes back, of course, but that doesn't mean that there isn't some hope that...
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Yewon Jung, a reader first & translator second, loves to fall in love with books & translate the books she loves. Her works include No One Writes Back (Dalkey Archive Press), One Hundred Shadows (Tilted Axis Press), & Seven Samurai Swept Away in a River (Deep Vellum Publishing). She is the winner of the 2017 LTI Korea Translation Award & the 2011 Korea Times Modern Korean Literature Translation Award. She lives on a small island in Korea & enjoys taking long walks along the beach .
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