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2023 Cercador Prize FinalistSHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2023 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 three 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."Cheon Myeong-kwan & Chi-Young Kim’s Whale, a billowing folk tale festively adorned with hearsay & rumor, makes miraculous hay out of embellished narratives. A fanciful cast of characters, including a chatty pachyderm & an elusive honeybee charmer, encounter operatic tragedy in this unfurled riff on the meandering, mythological yarn. — The Cercador Prize °°° A sweeping, multi-generational tale blending fable, farce & fantasy.A woman sells her daughter to a passing beekeeper for two jars of honey. A baby weighing fifteen pounds is born in the de

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Author

Cheon Myeong-Kwan, Chi-Young Kim (translation)

Publisher

Europa Editions (UK) Ltd

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781787704343

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, World Fiction

Updated

2026-03-24