A novel of political intrigue and coming of age, centered in a torture operative who is a fugitive and his unsuspecting daughter who must shelter him.

Ch'ŏn Un-yŏng is a South Korean writer. The Catcher in the Loft is her first book of fiction to appear in English translation. Bruce Fulton is the inaugural holder of the Young-Bin Min Chair in Korean Literature and Literary Translation, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia. Together Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton are the translators of numerous volumes of modern Korean fiction. Their most recent translations are the graphic novel Moss by Yoon Taeho, serialized at The Huffington Post (2015-16), The Future of Silence: Fiction by Korean Women (Zephyr Press, 2016), The Human Jungle by Cho Chŏngnae (Chin Music Press, 2016), Sunset: A Ch'ae Manshik Reader (Columbia University Press, 2017), and Mina by Kim Sagwa (Two Lines Press, 2018).