The Salmon Who Dared to Leap Higher
The Korean Multi-Million Copy Bestseller
$20.69
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
11 June 2024
Summary
The life of the salmon is a predictable one: swimming upstream to the place of its birth to spawn, and then to die.
This is the story of a salmon whose silver scales mark him out as different—who dares to leap beyond his fate. It’s a story about growing up, and about aching and ardent love. For swimming upstream means pursuing something the salmon cannot see: a dream.
Translated for the first time into English, The Salmon Who Dared to Leap Higher is a wise, tender, an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035034628 |
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| ISBN-10: | 103503462X |
| Author: | Ahn Do-hyun, Deborah Smith |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Pan Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 11 June 2024 |
| Weight: | 118g |
| Dimensions: | 11mm x 130mm x 197mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Ahn Do-hyun
Ahn Do-hyun is a multi-million bestselling, award-winning Korean poet. He was born in 1961 in Yeocheon, Korea, and graduated from Wonkwang University where he studied Korean literature. His writing career took off when he won the Daegu Maeil Shinmun Annual Literary Contest with his poem ‘Nakdong River’ in 1981 and the Dong-A Ilbo Annual Literary Contest with his poem ‘Jeon Bong-jun Goes to Seoul’ in 1984. Ahn also received the 1996 Young Poet’s Award and the 1998 Kim So-wol Literature Prize. His modern fable, The Salmon Who Dared to Leap Higher, is his first work to be translated into English.
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