Her fiction is a breath-taking piece of a cinematic art itself. Reminiscent of the world we experienced in Matrix, Inception, and Dark City, still it leads us to this entirely original structure, which is a ground-breaking, mystic literary and cinematic experience. Indeed, powerful and graceful.Bong Joon-ho, Oscar-winning director of Parasite
In this mind-expanding work of speculative fiction, available in English for the first time, one of South Koreas most treasured writers explores the driving forces of humanitylove, hope, creation, destruction, and the very meaning of existencein two pairs of thematically interconnected stories.Two worlds, four stories, infinite possibilities
In Im Waiting for You and On My Way, an engaged couple coordinate their separate missions to distant corners of the galaxy to ensurethrough relativitythey can arrive back on Earth simultaneously to make it down the aisle. But small incidents wreak havoc on space and time, driving their wedding date further away. As centuries on Earth pass and the land and climate change, one thing is constant: the desire of the lovers to be together. In two separate yet linked stories, Kim Bo-Young cleverly demonstrate the idea love that is timeless and hope springs eternal, despite seemingly insurmountable challenges and the deepest despair.
In The Prophet of Corruption and That One Life, humanity is viewed through the eyes of its creators: godlike beings for which everything on Earthfrom the richest woman to a speck of dirtis an extension of their will. When one of the creations questions the righteousness of this arrangement, it is deemed a perversiona diseasethat must be excised and cured. Yet the Prophet Naban, whose child is rebelling, isnt sure the rebellion is bad. What if that which is considered criminal is instead the natural orderand those who condemn it corrupt? Exploring the dichotomy between the philosophical and the corporeal, Kim ponders the fate of free-will, as she considers the most basic of questions: who am I?
