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Vaseline Buddha / Jung Young Moon ; translated from the Korean by Yewon Jung.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Dallas, TX : Deep Vellum Publishing, c2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 226 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9781941920343 (pbk.)
Uniform titles:
  • Pasellin putta. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 895.734 M8181v
Summary: "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]
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Books Books Library, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Window on Korea Fiction 895.734 M8181v (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2016 01 Available WOK000394
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"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]