★The book was shortlisted for the 56th "the Hankook Ilbo Literary Award" in 2023.
★Korean mainstream media "Kyunghyang Shinmun" "The Hankyoreh" "Hankook Ilbo" recommended book!
★Novel of the year 2023, ranked first among 50 novelists!
★What if your mother with dementia suddenly wants to meet aliens? What if all our languages disappear? This book presents these questions in a world of infinite possibilities.
★The new collection of stories of Gu Byeong-mo, winner of Today's Writer Award and Kim Yu-jung Literary Award after five years ! The author is good at describing various social conditions, and cuts into the problems from a sharp angle. The copyrights of many works have been sold overseas.

*Hankook Ilbo Literature Prize: Established in 1968, the prize is awarded to the most outstanding Korean novel published in the past year, which can lead the new trend of Korean literature.

The first part of the novel is a moving story about family, memory and social problems. The story takes place in a futuristic South Korea, where the average age is 61 years old in a super old society. The cost of caring for the elderly has become a social problem. The narrator is a professional makeup artist whose mother suffers from severe dementia and cannot even recognize her own daughter. However, her mother tells her that she wants to meet an alien she once met as a child, with the long and strange name "Ninikorachiupunta". Does this alien really exist? The story starts off full of mystery, but then takes an unexpected turn. The novel reveals the inner workings of society, and at the same time it deeply touches the readers. Through this story, we can not only reflect on the importance of family and memory, but also reflect on society's care and support for the elderly. It's a thought-provoking work, and it's fascinating.

And stories about exploring the boundaries between reality and imagination. The main character, C, is a novelist who has been commissioned to write a romance novel. However, while he is sleeping, he has a dream in which he sees a movie he thinks he has seen before. When he wakes up, he finds himself unable to determine if the film really exists, or if it is his own imagination. So C begins to imagine all possible endings in an attempt to find an answer. Through C's exploration, the novel reveals the blurred boundary between reality and imagination, and explores the human quest for authenticity and the desire for diversity.

Gu Byeong-mo
Gu Byeong-mo is born in Seoul, in 1976. In 2008, she officially entered the literary world when her novel Wizard Bakery won the 2nd Changbi Prize for Young Adult Fiction.

She won the 39th Today's Writer Award and the 4th Hwang Sun-won New Writers' Award. In Taiwan, she published "Wizard Bakery" (Tianpei Culture. 2013), and the short story collection "A letter to Brother Xiannan" (Times Publishing, 2019). Her writing is steady, the story is very tense, and the plot is smooth. She is good at describing the various social conditions, and cuts into the problems from a sharp angle.