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Don’t Disappear Tonight
- collection of novels
- Categories:Short Stories & Anthologies
- Language:Korean（Translation Services Available）
- Publication Place:South Korea
- Publication date:November,2019
- Pages:232
- Retail Price:13500.00
- Size:128mm×185mm
- Text Color:Full color
- Words:（Unknown）
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★Its copyright in Simplified Chinese has been sold
★Recommended by South Korea's authoritative media like Korea Daily News, Shinhyang News, The Hankyoreh, Segye Ilbo
★Referred as "MD's Choice" by Kyoho Bunko, the largest bookstore in South Korea
★ "Highly recommended book," "Book of today," a bestseller of YES24, a representative online bookstore in South Korea
★Its author is Baek So-rim, the winner of the XXX Literature Award, Lee Haecho Fiction Literature Award, and Modern Literature Award. This time, she returns with a new collection of short stories. YES24 readers selected her in 2019 as the "young writer who will lead the future of Korean literature," and she is currently the most promising novelist.
★Recommended by South Korea's authoritative media like Korea Daily News, Shinhyang News, The Hankyoreh, Segye Ilbo
★Referred as "MD's Choice" by Kyoho Bunko, the largest bookstore in South Korea
★ "Highly recommended book," "Book of today," a bestseller of YES24, a representative online bookstore in South Korea
★Its author is Baek So-rim, the winner of the XXX Literature Award, Lee Haecho Fiction Literature Award, and Modern Literature Award. This time, she returns with a new collection of short stories. YES24 readers selected her in 2019 as the "young writer who will lead the future of Korean literature," and she is currently the most promising novelist.
Description
“Will the restless heart be okay if that period is gone?” Baek So-rim’s new book consisting of short stories is immaculate.
The 13 short stories in this book are full of the author's care for the subtle sadness of life. She depicts the time, people, landscapes, and inseparable people that have disappeared in her own delicate way, and she warmly calls out, “what I have lost will never come back; only when I close my eyes will it return to me for a while” and “All that is lost before I realize it is mine”. In addition, Joo Jung-ah, a famous illustrator, adds a touch of fun to this book by using unique colors to draw story-based pictures. The imagination-stimulating story combined with the lifelike drawings maximizes the book’s charm.
【Plot Summary】
The Perfect Vacation: Joo-hee is at an airport with her husband to leave for a vacation to escape the scorching heat. She recalls the dazzling summer scenes of her childhood and the bright young days of her father, who is now a stubborn old man.
The Temperature of That Early Morning: “She” suffers from insomnia due to her constant worries about her company, interpersonal relationships, and next month’s heating bill. This early morning, she, along with a dog rescued by her enjoys the heating without calculating anything.
A Certain End: To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the marriage, “we” travel to Japan for the second time, but we feel subtle changes in our feelings from five years ago, and we feel the approach of a certain end.
Love Before Sunrise: The first overseas trip with my mom, waiting for the morning to come, hearing my parents’ first love story......
Just Close Your Eyes: They were a college couple twenty years ago. Now, one has already started a family, and the other is a freelance writer. The dream-like relationship comes to their mind......
The Night When Nothing Happened: During a blizzard, “she” sits in a strange foreign sanatorium and tells the secrets of her life while waiting for the family of a dead patient.
The 13 short stories in this book are full of the author's care for the subtle sadness of life. She depicts the time, people, landscapes, and inseparable people that have disappeared in her own delicate way, and she warmly calls out, “what I have lost will never come back; only when I close my eyes will it return to me for a while” and “All that is lost before I realize it is mine”. In addition, Joo Jung-ah, a famous illustrator, adds a touch of fun to this book by using unique colors to draw story-based pictures. The imagination-stimulating story combined with the lifelike drawings maximizes the book’s charm.
【Plot Summary】
The Perfect Vacation: Joo-hee is at an airport with her husband to leave for a vacation to escape the scorching heat. She recalls the dazzling summer scenes of her childhood and the bright young days of her father, who is now a stubborn old man.
The Temperature of That Early Morning: “She” suffers from insomnia due to her constant worries about her company, interpersonal relationships, and next month’s heating bill. This early morning, she, along with a dog rescued by her enjoys the heating without calculating anything.
A Certain End: To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the marriage, “we” travel to Japan for the second time, but we feel subtle changes in our feelings from five years ago, and we feel the approach of a certain end.
Love Before Sunrise: The first overseas trip with my mom, waiting for the morning to come, hearing my parents’ first love story......
Just Close Your Eyes: They were a college couple twenty years ago. Now, one has already started a family, and the other is a freelance writer. The dream-like relationship comes to their mind......
The Night When Nothing Happened: During a blizzard, “she” sits in a strange foreign sanatorium and tells the secrets of her life while waiting for the family of a dead patient.
Author
Baek So-rim (transliteration)
Born in Incheon in 1982, she graduated from Yonsei University with a bachelor's degree in French. She completed her Ph.D. in French at the Graduate School of Seogang University and Université Lumière Lyon 2. In 2011, her short story Lie-telling Exercises was published in the New Springtime Literature Section of the Shinseong News. After that, her publications include novel collections Paulring in Paul and Tragic Light, a novella Dear, Dear, a short story collection Don't Disappear Tonight, and a translation work, Illiteracy.
She is the winner of the XXX Literature Award, Lee Haecho Fiction Literature Award, and Modern Literature Award. This time, she returns with a new collection of short stories. YES24 readers selected her in 2019 as the "young writer who will lead the future of Korean literature" and she is currently the most promising novelist.
Born in Incheon in 1982, she graduated from Yonsei University with a bachelor's degree in French. She completed her Ph.D. in French at the Graduate School of Seogang University and Université Lumière Lyon 2. In 2011, her short story Lie-telling Exercises was published in the New Springtime Literature Section of the Shinseong News. After that, her publications include novel collections Paulring in Paul and Tragic Light, a novella Dear, Dear, a short story collection Don't Disappear Tonight, and a translation work, Illiteracy.
She is the winner of the XXX Literature Award, Lee Haecho Fiction Literature Award, and Modern Literature Award. This time, she returns with a new collection of short stories. YES24 readers selected her in 2019 as the "young writer who will lead the future of Korean literature" and she is currently the most promising novelist.
Contents
Preface
An Amazing Day
Let’s, Kiss?
The Perfect Vacation
The Temperature of That Early Morning
The Zoo in Spring
The Beach Towel All People Need
A Certain End
Love before Sunrise
Always Happy Ending
The Start of the Trip
Just Close Your Eyes
Bleak Light
The Night When Nothing Happened
An Amazing Day
Let’s, Kiss?
The Perfect Vacation
The Temperature of That Early Morning
The Zoo in Spring
The Beach Towel All People Need
A Certain End
Love before Sunrise
Always Happy Ending
The Start of the Trip
Just Close Your Eyes
Bleak Light
The Night When Nothing Happened
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