The Virtue of Unfaithful Translations
Minsoo Kang
New Suns
2019
2019
Novelette
7,867 words
Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
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In which we learn how bad translations averted a war and led to lasting peace.
MetafictionalWarHistorical China
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JusticeIntertextualEpistolary AdjacentHistorical FantasyArt And CreationSecondary World FantasyPhilosophicalSecondary WorldSpeculative FictionWryContemplativeDarkMemoryLiteraryFantasy
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misogynywar
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