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3.5 

A Greater Music

By Bae Suah & Deborah Smith
A Greater Music by Bae Suah & Deborah Smith digital book - Fable

Publisher Description

  • Includes in CBSD galley box.

  • Approximately 200 advance copies sent to primary publications. This list includes: New York Times, SF Chronicle, LA Times, n+1, New York Review of Books, The Nation, Bookforum, The Believer, Atlantic Monthly, New Yorker, Rain Taxi, Time Out New York/Chicago, World Literature Today, Flavorwire, Washington Post, BOMB, Literary Review, Complete Review, Words Without Borders, B&N Review, Harper's, Shelf Awareness, Quarterly Conversation, Chicago Tribune, Typographical Era, Slate, Salon, etc. Also sent to the following trade publications: Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Booklist, Library Journal.

  • Advance copies also sent to members of the NBCC Award Committee and the Best Translated Book Award Fiction Committee.

  • Giveaway of 25 copies on Goodreads, along with contacting members who have given her other works positive reviews.

  • Promote on Three Percent and on social media via Open Letter's FB & Twitter accounts (over 5,900 likes on FB; over 10,700 followers on Twitter).

  • Ebook available and will be mentioned on all press release materials, Open Letter website, etc.

  • Reading tour starting at the American Literary Translators Association conference and hitting a few key bookstores across the country. The translator, Deborah Smith, might also participate in this tour.

  • Collaboration with Deep Vellum to jointly promote both Bae Suah titles that are coming out in the fall of 2016.

  • Dedicated online promotional efforts, including excerpts on Three Percent, interviews with the translator and author, and reviews in all the magazines that refused to write about her earlier book because it came out from Amazon.

  • Serialization of Porochista Khakpour's introduction at a print or online magazine.
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    19 Reviews

    3.5
    “I think I will enjoy everything Bae Suah writes no matter what as I love her melancholic writing style. It's one thing to write a beautiful story and it's another to deliver it to your readers and Suah managed to do both of these things. the relationship between music and death that unfolds throw the book, was like a greater music, so intertwined and connected. The struggles of a foreigner in a new country, in pursuit of the future and ambitions were so relatable. The relationships main character built through her stay in Germany, seemed so opposite of each other but also linked. M was the highlight of the story and she was such a powerful character. The romance narrative of the book was delivered perfectly. The relationship with M being present from the beginning of the story. And lastly, haze that exists in Bae's writing; the concept of being confused, in haze, when the lines get blurred makes her one of my favorite Korean authors. It's one thing to give readers answers to all their questions, but it's another to make them question even those answers. I love how you never know with what to feel or how to interpret the story; each reader finds own interpretation and it makes reading her books quite an experience”

    About Bae Suah

    Bae Suah is one of the most highly acclaimed contemporary Korean authors, with over ten short story collections and five novels to her name. She received the Hanguk Ilbo literary prize in 2003, and the Tongseo literary prize in 2004. She has also translated several books from the German, including works by W. G. Sebald, Franz Kafka, and Jenny Erpenbeck. Nowhere to be Found, translated by Sora Kim-Russell, was the first of her books to appear in English, and was longlisted for a PEN Translation Prize.

    Deborah Smith's literary translations from the Korean include two novels by Han Kang (The Vegetarian and Human Acts), and two by Bae Suah, (A Greater Music and Recitation). She also recently founded Tilted Axis Press to bring more works from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East into English.

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