dd's Umbrella

'With reflections on the South Korean government's chilling response to earlier student demonstrations and the aftermath of the ferry tragedy, Hwang shines an illuminating light on the repression that persists amid social progress. It's a tender and revealing portrait of characters on the margins.' -- Publishers Weekly 'dd's Umbrella presents the uncertainty of life and the ever-presence of grief and discrimination to ultimately communicate the importance of showing up for others, to offer them space under an umbrella when it's raining.' -- Asian Review of Books 'dd's Umbrella argues that for each moment that remains alive within the history books, there are individual stories that will be remembered and there will be those that remain unheard - but to the people to who those stories belong, they are the way in which the experience the world'--Singapore Unbound 'Like Hwang's previous novels, this book is a tender, spooky portrait of outcast friends and lovers' -- The New Yorker for I'll Go On 'A profound, lyrical incantation . . . What could be a fairly depressing story [I'll Go On] is raised to a thing of crystalline incandescence because of the sensitivity and humanity with which both author and translator craft this work'--Translating Women 'I'll Go On tenderly and poetically examines the bonds of sisterhood and family--the one we're born with and the one we choose--exploring both the damage love can do and its capacity for healing. It's at once sad and hopeful, quiet and yet full to the brim of an intense and beautiful energy.'--Sophie Mackintosh, author of The Water Cure for One Hundred Shadows 'There is an unforgettable, curious beauty to be found [in One Hundred Shadows].""--Han Kang, 2024 Nobel Laureate for Literature ""Hwang Jungeun's One Hundred Shadows is too odd to be this tender, and too sharply materialist to be this mystical, and too lyrical to be this gritty... The novel's symbols are as compelling as they are opaque, and it sucked me up and spat me out a different person.""--Literary Hub ""I've never read anything quite like One Hundred Shadows... experimental fiction at its finest.""--April Magazine 'The South Korean's first novel -- and her first to be translated into English -- is mesmerizing and surreal.'-- Vulture, '15 Must-Read Translated Books From the Past 5 Years' 'Affecting... It's rare for a story to be so dense in social meaning yet so lightly composed.'--The Nation 'Haunting... subtle but potent... a delicately-structured critique of capitalism.""--3: AM Magazine