Corea: apuntes desde la cuerda floja
“Korea: Notes from the Tightrope” (title translated by AI)
Andrés Felipe Solano (born 1977)
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The author and his wife, Soojeong Yi, have shared a tiny flat since 2013 in Itaewon, a busy Seoul neighbourhood where old Korean families, American soldiers, sex workers from Southeast Asia, Muslims and mixed couples like theirs cross paths. Divided into winter, spring, summer and autumn, the book covers a whole year in a country at the far side of the world from his own: his unlikely job as a voice on Korean radio, the endless and bizarre categories of paid sex, the trials of married life, and the friends and family left in Colombia who slowly fade from view. Moving between diary and chronicle, it also asks what makes people write, a question sharpened by living as a foreigner.
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About the book
- Form
- Nonfiction
- Set in
- South Korea
- First published
- 2015 by Ediciones UDP
- Author's age
- 38 when first published