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4.8
84 reviews2023 Cercador Prize Finalist
While Whale begins with Chunhee, a mysterious young brickmaker of imposing physicality who cannot speak, introduced a the Queen of Red Bricks, it quickly situates her story within a longer multi-generational saga composed of 3 parts. While we learn of Chunhee s tragic path to her becoming someone who makes bricks of the highest quality, the novel retraces the familial circumstances that shaped her. While poignant yet brutal, Whale is also a satire of how we the general public, mass media, even artists & writers tend to romanticize voiceless figures of history."°°°
SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2023
A sweeping, multi-generational tale blending fable, farce & fantasy.
“A peerless work devoted to telling a powerful story & lauded for expanding Korean literature into new dimensions.” — The Hankyoreh
“Fast-paced & imaginative.” — Dennis Maloney, Modern Family
A woman sells her daughter to a passing beekeeper for two jars of honey. A baby weighing fifteen pounds is born in the depths of winter but named “Girl of Spring”. A storm brings down the roof of a ramshackle restaurant to reveal a hidden fortune. These are just some of the events that set Myeong-Kwan Cheong’s beautifully crafted, wild world in motion.
Set in a remote village in South Korea, Whale follows the lives of its linked characters: Geumbok, who has been chasing an indescribable thrill ever since she first saw a whale crest in the ocean; her mute daughter, Chunhui, who communicates with elephants; & a one-eyed woman who controls honeybees with a whistle.
Brimming with surprises & wicked humour, Whale is an adventure-satire of epic proportions, by one of international literature’s the most original voices.
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Cheon Myeong-kwan is a South Korean novelist & screenwriter. Upon publication of his first story, “Frank & I” (2003), he received the prestigious Munhakdongne New Writer Award.
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