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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Yi, Ch’ang-dong, author. | Fenkl, Heinz Insu, 1960– translator. | Chang, Yoosup, translator.
Title: Snowy day and other stories / Lee Chang-dong ; Heinz Insu Fenkl and Yoosup Chang, transl.
Description: New York : Penguin Press, 2025. | Identifiers: LCCN 2024019945 | ISBN 9780593657256 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780593657263 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Yi, Ch’ang-dong—Translations into English. | LCGFT: Short stories.
Classification: LCC PL992.9.C3335 S66 2025 | DDC 895.73/4—dc23/eng/20240801
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024019945
Ebook ISBN 9780593657263
“Snowy Day” previously appeared in The New Yorker.
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