A woman spends a night with her fiance and his friends and overhears a terrible secret that has bound them together since high school. A man grows increasingly agitated by the apartment noise made by a young family living upstairs and arouses the suspicion of his own wife when the neighbours meet a string of unlucky incidents. A couple moves into a picture-perfect country house, but when their new dog is stolen, they become obsessed with finding the thief, and in the process, neglect their child. Ha's paranoia-inducing, heart-quickening stories will have you reconsidering your own neighbours.
When truth is more gruesome than fiction - Ha Seong-nan is there. When people give in to their most intrustive thoughts - Ha Seong-nan is there. When man is more animal than animals themselves - Ha Seong-nan is there. In Wafers, her third short story collection to appear in English, Ha continues to weave troublesome coincidences into the seemingly banal in her signature style of engrossing and unsettling prose. A best-seller in Korea, Ha Seong-nan is one of the stars of contemporary fiction, writing edgy, socially conscious stories that bring to mind the novels of Han Kang and the film Parasite.