Fever dream: Pip Adam on Bae Suah and the art of translation
With Bae Suah’s novels, two translators bend language to speak the unexplainable. When I was at primary school I was given a tiny doll in a match box. On the matchbox were printed the words Mon Ami. “It means ‘my friend’,” explained my next-door neighbour who was at high school and probably the coolest person … Read more