Friday 9 September 2022 from 6:30pm to 7:30pm
Join us at the Book Club to speak and exchange ideas about Korean literature. Dive in the world of books, meet a Korean author or discover a brand-new story to fall in love with.
Book of the month: The Hole by Hye-young Pyun and translated by Sora Kim-Russell
About the Book: Oghi has woken from a coma after causing a devastating car accident that took his wife’s life and left him paralyzed and badly disfigured. His caretaker is hit mother-in-law a widow grieving the loss of her only child. Oghi is neglected and left alone in his bed. His world shrinks to the room he lies in and his memories of his troubled relationship with his wife, a sensitive, intelligent woman who found all of her life foals thwarted except for one: cultivating the garden in front of their house. But soon Oghi notices his mother-in-law in the abandoned garden, uprooting what his wife had worked so hard to plant and obsessively digging larger and larger holes. When asked, she answers only that she is finishing what her daughter started.
Guest: An award: winning translator Sora Kim-Russell and Australian moderator Michaela Kalowski
Register to win one of 8 copies of our book of the month. Winners will receive their books after the event.
Free admission. Bookings are essential as places are limited.
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