Flowers Of Mold

"On the surface, Ha Seong-nan's stories seem pleasant enough, yet there's something disturbing just below the surface, r... (more)

"On the surface, Ha Seong-nan's stories seem pleasant enough, yet there's something disturbing just below the surface, ready to permanently disrupt the characters' lives. A woman meets her next-door neighbor and loans her a spatula, then starts suffering horrific gaps in her memory. A man, feeling jilted by an unrequited love, becomes obsessed with sorting through his neighbor's garbage in the belief that it will teach him how to better relate to people. A landlord decides to raise the rent, and his tenants hatch a plan to kill him at a team-building retreat. In ten captivating, unnerving stories, Flowers of Mold presents a range of ordinary individuals -- male and female, young and old -- who have found themselves left behind by an increasingly urbanized and fragmented world."-- back cover. (less)