Books: Lost in Korean-English translation, another winner from Celeste Ng, science fiction and more

Hi, I'm books editor Carolyn Kellogg, and this week, our books newsletter has gotten a little bit interactive. Maybe you read Han Kang's "The Vegetarian" -- I know I did after it won the Man Booker International Prize. The novel is a spare, strange tale of a South Korean woman who stops eating meat, in an unspoken resistance to her husband, and wastes away. The book was an English-language bestseller and young translator Deborah Smith was lauded with praise. But a closer look at her translation caused a huge controversy in South Korea: Did it go too far?