A Greater Music
ISBN-13: 9781940953465
Author(s): Bae Suah
Subjects: FBC, FYT
Publisher: Open Letter
Publisher Imprint: Open Letter
Publication Date: 11-10-2016
Format: Paperback / softback
Availability: In stock
£13.99
About the book
Near the beginning of A Greater Music, the narrator, a young Korean writer, falls into an icy river in the Berlin suburbs, where she's been house-sitting for her on-off boyfriend Joachim. This sets into motion a series of memories that move between the hazily defined present and the period three years ago when she first lived in Berlin. Throughout, the narrator's relationship with Joachim, a rough-and-ready metalworker, is contrasted with her friendship with M, an ultra-refined music-loving German teacher, whom, it is suggested, later became her lesbian lover.