"Plant Wife" Author: [Korean] Han Jiang Translator: Cui Youxue Publisher: Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House

◆A collection of short stories by Han Jiang, a hot candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature and the first Asian winner of the Booker International Prize. He won the Italian Malaparte Literature Prize, the Spanish San Clemente Literature Prize, was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literature Prize, and was the annual writer of the Norwegian Future Library Project.

As a backbone force in the Korean literary world, Han Kang is very likely to become an important candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature among contemporary Korean writers.

——Le Clézio, Nobel Prize winner in Literature and leader of French literary world

◆It is eight times more exciting than The Vegetarian and won the Korean Novel Literature Award with only one eighth of its content.

Flowers and beasts, plants and iron, blindness and falling, dreams of escape and injured feet, failed love, broken family ties and us wandering in a world without hope.

◆A low-level person who holds a knife in his heart and saves himself from danger again and again.

A wife who turned into a plant, a housewife who ran away from home, a girl who resolutely became a nun, a mother with a knife in her heart, and a couple who were unable to maintain their love.

◆Directly translated from Korean by Professor Cui Youxue of Minzu University of China, the cover was specially drawn by the super popular illustrator Lu Mao, and the binding design was undertaken by designer Fu Shiyi. The inner and outer covers are hardcover with laser gold hot stamping.

This book consists of eight novellas and short stories. Water and fire, softness and sharpness, spring and winter, plants and iron, Han Jiang sees through the momentary feelings and impressions in these conflicts, and depicts the expression of fate with beautiful and vivid language, flashing a dazzling light when exploring the dark side of the relationship between people. The short story collection focuses on the "bottom" people, and each protagonist is wandering like an orphan in a "hopeless world". They walk out of the hotel rooms in remote towns, the rooms at the end of the corridors of the examination hall, the dark basements or the ends of the corridors of multi-family houses and high-rise apartments, through the dark stairs and alleys without street lights, and into the busy and tiring city streets. However, even if they leave many tired people and unfortunate cities and come to live in remote seaside or marginal port cities, they will eventually return to the city. This is their destiny. They are in the noisy, polluted and complicated interpersonal relationships in the city, but there is no paradise or mother who can accommodate and comfort them. Paradise and mother only exist in dreams or on the other side of death. The world they live in is the world of their father, an evil and cold world. That is the real world, full of snakes, numbers 13 and 4, and cold iron products. And the characters in Han Jiang's novel will be reborn there.