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The Season that Cat Cries

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  • Categories:Short Stories & Anthologies
  • Language:Korean(Translation Services Available)
  • Publication date:August,2023
  • Pages:211
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  • Size:140mm×205mm
  • Page Views:39
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  • Text Color:Black and white
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Feature

★A novel that meets the current topics and trends of young people's concerns
★This is a collection of short stories consisting of seven stories with seven different themes to discuss life and death, including mourning and missing for the sudden death of a lover, the consumer culture of the modern age, the lonely passing of a mother, and a new kind of digital soul.
★A new book written by Kim Young-seok, winner of the 2018 Korean National Palm Literary Award!

Description

Chapter 1: The Season that Cat Cries
This is a short story about love and separation as a man searches for his suddenly missing lover. The man later learns the reason for his lover’s disappearance and knows what her life was like until the end of story.

Chapter 2: All Sold Out
The second story indirectly reveals the life of modern people who are born to consume and trapped by consumption through a day's experience in a department store. It satirizes the mentality of young people who are long for luxuries.

Chapter 3: The French for 'Coco'
This is a story about the memory of a man who experienced the lonely death of his mother after her funeral.

Chapter 4: The Package to Punta Arenas
This short story tells a man's desire to visit Punta Arenas, the southernmost port city in Chile, and it contains many fantasy elements.

Chapter 5: Kanghwa Island and Capri Island
Set on the Italian islands of Capri and Kanghwa, the novel tells the story of a heroine living in Seoul who travels to Kanghwa to meet up with her old college friend, but encounters a sinkhole.

Chapter 6: D'soul
This novel is set in a time when people's memories can be inputted into a database and transplanted into a new brain. It tells the story of a man who, through a memory database, is reborn as a being with a "digital soul" instead of a human being. However, the brain into which the man's memories are transplanted is the brain of his own son (brain death in a car accident).
The novel proposes what is human existence? Is memory the self? Do digital souls really exist? And other questions.

Chapter 7: Dancing in the Santa Chiara Church
The novel is set in Assisi, a city in central Italy. The hero meets Charlotte, an elderly Englishwoman in the Santa Chiara Square and learns that she is heading to the Dignitas Organization in Zurich, Switzerland to seek a dignified death (euthanasia). The hero's brief two-day meeting with Charlotte, who is about to die with dignity, explores the meaning of life and death.

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