The Salmon Who Dared to Leap Higher

Ahn Do-hyun, Deborah Smith

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English

Macmillan
11 June 2024

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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 and inspiring modern fable about finding freedom and a harmony with nature we have either forgotten or lost in the binding realities of life.

By: Ahn Do-hyun
Translated by: Deborah Smith
Imprint: Macmillan
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 118g
ISBN: 9781035034628
ISBN 10: 103503462X
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 11 June 2024
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.