Wafers

About

Stories in the unsettling, precisely observed mode that has made Ha Seong-nan one of Korea's most distinctive voices. A woman eats wafers while her life quietly decomposes around her. A neighbour's behaviour crosses from odd to menacing in increments too small to protest. Ordinary domestic settings become stages for dread that never quite declares itself. Ha writes about the kind of wrongness that accumulates in the spaces between people — the micro-aggressions, the unexplained noises, the sense that something in the apartment next door is not right. Stories that make you check the lock on your door — not because anything dramatic has happened, but because Ha has made you realize how thin the walls are.