Vaseline Buddha
By: Jung Young Moon ; translated from the Korean by Yewon Jung
Contributors: Jung, Yewon, translator
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781941920343
Subjects: Korean fiction; Translations into English; Fiction
Work titles: Pasellin putta
Description: "A tragicomic odyssey told through free association from South Korea's most enigmatic contemporary authors scrubs the depths of the human psyche to achieve a higher level of consciousness equal to Zen meditation. The story opens when our sleepless narrator thwarts a would-be thief outside his moonlit window, then delves into his subconscious imagination to explore a variety of geographical and mental locations--real, unreal, surreal--to explore the very nature of reality...."--Cover, p.[4]