Seven Samurai Swept Away in a River

(Paperback)

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* Author is well connected in the Texas and US arts community, having completed a writer's residency at 100W Corsicana hosted by author David Searcy (who is also a character in this book). * This is the author's 3rd book in English, the last Deep Vellum published was very well received critically * The author has spent extensive time touring the US for book events, and will do so again with this book * Texas setting has great appeal to readers, maybe more so than a book in translation set in a foreign country they don't know

Reviews

Featured as a Book of Note by the Athenaeum Review

"Who better than a Texas-based publisher of fiction in translation to champion an unusual work by a Korean writer, set in the Lone Star state No-one, thats who." Tony Malone

"Dispassionate, subversive, ambiguous, utterly cuckoo at times, Jung Young Moon has written a short masterwork of contemporary digression, a far distant cousin to Tristram Shandy (1759); but also a novel that acts as an antidote to our age of distraction because it takes real presence to follow the narrators mind, a mind that is looking to challenge the notions of fiction to create fiction that one might hesitate to call fiction."Splice Magazine

"Impressive fluidity... Like a lucid dream." Foreword Reviews

"An oddly entertaining stream of consciousness that flows out over the thirsty Lone Star State." Kirkus Reviews

There are many novels by Western authors sojourning in Asia. Stories that go the other way around are as rare as hens teeth Seven Samurai Swept Away in a Riveropens a window into a non-traditional narrative prose style. Asian Review of Books

It is a slim and beautiful volume. Thats important for this particular book because this is a piece of art. This is something that you want to hold dear and treasure. Read the World, Derek Maine

Praise for Vaseline Buddha:

"Reading Vaseline Buddha feels like watching a magician who explains his trick as he performs it and yet still mesmerizes you with his sleight of hand. You simultaneously enter the dream and wake from it...This resistance underpinning the entire exercise makes Jung an heir to Polish novelist Witold Gombrowicz, who understood that writing is the documentation of a dance the writer does between form and chaos." Tyler Malone, Los Angeles Times

Ridiculous in the best way. D Magazine, Zac Crain

Author Bio

Jung Young Moon, born in 1965, is an award-winning Korean writer and translator. A graduate of Seoul National University with a degree in psychology, Jung is also an alum of the University of Iowas International Writing Program. In 2012, he won the Han Moo-suk Literary Award, the Dong-in Literary Award, and the Daesan Literary Award for his novel A Contrived World. He has been a resident at the University of California at Berkeleys Center for Korean Study and the 100 West Corsicana Artists & Writers Residency in Texas, the latter of which inspired his novel Seven Samurai Swept Away in a River. Deep Vellum published his novel Vaseline Buddha in 2016, and will publish his linked novella trilogy Arriving in a Thick Fog in 2020.