Khairani Barokka addresses issues of pollution, consumerism, and habitat destruction with a poet's sensibility, and her neon artwork, inspired by contemporary glitch artists while also incorporating traditional motifs, aims to overturn our ideas of the jungle as a place of threatening darkness ❣️
We're thrilled to be publishing our groundbreaking third book! Khairani Barokka's Indigenous Species is a remarkable narrative at the intersection of translation & disability: a bold experiment in making a sight-impaired-accessible art book💥💥💥 ‘A ballad about wounded islands and their people, Indigenous Species reminds me of an old song, the kind our village storytellers used to sing. It has a fairytale quality, setting a dreamlike world alongside the horror of real lives; in other words, it’s like a lullaby, but one that will make you stay awake.’
— Eka Kurniawan, author of Beauty is a Wound
The lovely Natalia has chosen her Christmas wishlist for @lrbbookshop including Hwang Jungeun's One Hundred Shadows ✨ Spoiler: she has excellent taste 👏🏽
We're excited to launch Hwang Jungeun's dark and beguiling ONE HUNDRED SHADOWS @lrbbookshop tonight! 🚀 We'll be giving out these 👌🏽 bookmarks fresh off the press too 🎀
The great people @lrbbookshop are running a competition to win copies of Hwang Jungeun's One Hundred Shadows & @drlaurenelkin 's The Flâneuse. Head over to their twitter @lrbbookshop !
Excellent selection of #womenintranslation @burleyfisher including our first two books, Panty by Sangeeta Bandypadhyay and One Hundred Shadows by Hwang Jungeun 👌🏽
Hwang Jungeun is a rising star of Korean literature and has published two collections of short stories and three novels to date. One Hundred Shadows is her debut novel: a critical and commercial success on publication in Korea, its mix of oblique fantasy, hard-edge social critique, and offbeat romance garnered the prestigious Hankook Ilbo Literary Award and the Korean Booksellers’ Award #koreanliterature
