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9781564789600: No One Writes Back
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ISBN 10 : 1564789608 ISBN 13 : 9781564789600
Editeur : Dalkey Archive Press, 2014

Synopsis

Communication-or the lack thereof--is the subject of this sly update of the picaresque novel.

No One Writes Back is the story of a young man who leaves home with only his blind dog, an MP3 player, and 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 even invent nicknames for them--he assigns them numbers. There's 239, 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; and 32, who's already decided to commit suicide. The narrator writes letters to these men and 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 one of them will, someday...

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À propos de l'auteur

Jang Eun-Jin was born in Gwangju, Korea, in 1976, and graduated from the Department of Geography at Cheonnam National University. She made her literary debut with her receipt of the Joongang Daily New Writers Award, and has since published four novels and a collection of short stories.

Jung Yewon was born in Seoul, and moved to the US at the age of 12. She received a BA in English from Brigham Young University, and an MA from the Graduate School of Interpretation and Translation at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.

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Éditeur
Dalkey Archive Press
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1564789608
ISBN 13 
9781564789600
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
203
Coordonnées du fabricant
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