- Yi Sang Literary Award 2010 · Excellence prize
The Canning Factory
통조림공장 · Tongjorim gongjang
Pyun Hye-young (편혜영, born 1972)
Translated by Michelle Jooeun Kim, Park Youngsuk, Gloria Cosgrove Smith
English editions
In EnglishEvening Proposal · translated by Park Youngsuk, Gloria Cosgrove Smith
Dalkey Archive Press · United States · 2016 · 198 pages
The Canning Factory · translated by Michelle Jooeun Kim
Asia Publishers · South Korea · 13 June 2014 · 103 pages
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At a canning factory that has run like clockwork for decades, people vanish without a sound, as if sealed into tins themselves, while the production line carries on unchanged.
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About the book
- Form
- Short story
- First published
- 2009 by Munhak Sasang
- Author's age
- 37 when first published
- ISBN
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9791156620303 (Asia Publishers, South Korea)
9781628971545 (Dalkey Archive Press, United States)