Tongue (21 page)

A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR

Kyung Ran Jo was born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1969. She earned a degree in creative writing from Seoul Institute of the Arts and has participated in the University of Iowa’s renowned International Writing Program. Since her fiction debut at age twenty-eight, she has earned numerous literary awards including the Today’s Young Artist Prize from the South Korean Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Dong-in Literary Award for her newest short-story collection,
I Bought Balloons. Tongue
, an immediate bestseller in South Korea, is her first novel to be translated into English.

Copyright © 2007 by Kyung Ran Jo
English translation copyright © 2009 by Chi-Young Kim

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Jo, Kyung Ran.
[Hyeo. English]

Tongue : a novel / K yung Ran Jo; translated by Chi-Young Kim.—1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.

ISBN-13: 978-1-59691-651-7 (pbk.)

1. Women cooks—Fiction. 2. Self-realization in women—Fiction. 3. Cookery—Fiction. 4. Psychological fiction. I. Kim, Chi-Young. II. Title.

PL994.35.K98H94 2009

895.7’35—dc22

2008055743

First published in South Korea as
Hyeo
by Munhakdongne Publishing Corp. in 2007

First published by Bloomsbury USA in 2009

This e-book edition published in 2011

E-book ISBN: 978-1-60819-781-1

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