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Small Comfort by Ia Genberg (Tr. Kira Josefsson): Money, money, money   

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An international bestseller, Ia Genberg’s The Details was one of 2023’s standout reads for me. Published for the first time in English, this year’s International Booker Prize longlisted Small Comfort is an earlier novel, also translated by Kira Joseffson. It has a similar structure, following five characters although this time the link is money rather […]

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Your Neighbour’s Table by Gu Byeong-Mo (transl. Chi-Young Kim): ‘Strangely, not a single child called for their dad’

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I’ve read so little Korean fiction that when Gu Byeong-Mo’s Your Neighbour’s Table popped up on NetGalley I decided to give it a try. It’s set in an apartment building for which there is a long waiting list and strict rules to obey: tenants must have at least one child and produce two more. You’d

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