“Read me a passage. In your mother tongue.”
Ian Hartnett. The most acclaimed writer in contemporary English literature. Baek Mu-yeong, the translator of all of Ian’s books, travels to London to translate the stage play of Ian’s debut work, < Things Like Jokes. >
In a dim theater, the moment just before the curtain rises— lifting his head absentmindedly, Mu-yeong finally discovers Ian Hartnett not from deep within the pages, but outside the book, for the first time…
