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The World We Just Left
- Korean science fictionMarginalized charactersNew worlds
- Categories:Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Language:Korean（Translation Services Available）
- Publication Place:South Korea
- Publication date:October,2021
- Pages:324
- Retail Price:（Unknown）
- Size:128mm×188mm
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Review
Kim Gyeo-ul (Writer, host of the YouTube channel Winter Bookstore)
Ever since Kim Cho-yeop made her stunning debut, I had been waiting for her second collection of short stories. I hoped both that she would continue her signature style and that I would see something entirely new. Having finished it, as a devoted reader, I feel that The World We Just Left accomplishes both at once.
This book continues Kim Cho-yeop‘s characteristic narrative thread: centering on characters who persevere, and summoning the present through memory. Compared with the more indirect portrayal of social issues in If We Cannot Move at the Speed of Light, this book brings those issues even more directly into view. The characters in these stories—beings different from “ordinary people,” marginalized within society—arrive at special circumstances that ordinary people cannot reach. The story does not stop at a simple narrative of overcoming hardship, and this is thanks to Kim Cho-yeop’s meticulous observation and deep reflection on her own experiences.
After finishing and closing the book, the world she built lingered in my mind for a long time. I have a feeling that in the future, when I encounter the various facets of reality in life, this book will suddenly surface in my mind. With her own brush, she calmly weaves together bitter reality, scientific imagination, and a steadfast inner world. I am glad she lives in this era and continues to write. Her words are like a banner, broadening my barren spiritual territory. I have a feeling I will always be a devoted reader of hers—and so will many, many others.
Ever since Kim Cho-yeop made her stunning debut, I had been waiting for her second collection of short stories. I hoped both that she would continue her signature style and that I would see something entirely new. Having finished it, as a devoted reader, I feel that The World We Just Left accomplishes both at once.
This book continues Kim Cho-yeop‘s characteristic narrative thread: centering on characters who persevere, and summoning the present through memory. Compared with the more indirect portrayal of social issues in If We Cannot Move at the Speed of Light, this book brings those issues even more directly into view. The characters in these stories—beings different from “ordinary people,” marginalized within society—arrive at special circumstances that ordinary people cannot reach. The story does not stop at a simple narrative of overcoming hardship, and this is thanks to Kim Cho-yeop’s meticulous observation and deep reflection on her own experiences.
After finishing and closing the book, the world she built lingered in my mind for a long time. I have a feeling that in the future, when I encounter the various facets of reality in life, this book will suddenly surface in my mind. With her own brush, she calmly weaves together bitter reality, scientific imagination, and a steadfast inner world. I am glad she lives in this era and continues to write. Her words are like a banner, broadening my barren spiritual territory. I have a feeling I will always be a devoted reader of hers—and so will many, many others.
Feature
★ Rights sold to: Mainland China, Taiwan (China), Japan.
★ The second short story collection by Kim Cho-yeop, a leading voice in Korean science fiction, and the follow-up to a 200,000-copy bestseller: Released two years after her debut collection If We Cannot Move at the Speed of Light, which sold 200,000 copies, this second collection includes seven magnificent stories, among them “Cognitive Space,” winner of the 11th Young Writer Award, and “The Ancient Contract,” selected as a 2021 Problem Novel.
★ Seven stories constructing Kim Cho-yeop‘s unique literary universe: The book includes seven stories—“The Last Leoni,” “Mary’s Dance,” “Laura,” “Shadow of Breath,” “The Ancient Contract,” “Cognitive Space,” and “The Carbine Equation.” With delicate prose, resilient storytelling, and profound reflection on the other, Kim Cho-yeop gathers stories from the far ends of the universe into her singular literary cosmos.
★ Recommended by The Hankyoreh (October 22, 2021), Hankook Ilbo, Seoul Shinmun, Munhwa Ilbo, Kyunghyang Shinmun, Segye Ilbo, and other media.
★ The second short story collection by Kim Cho-yeop, a leading voice in Korean science fiction, and the follow-up to a 200,000-copy bestseller: Released two years after her debut collection If We Cannot Move at the Speed of Light, which sold 200,000 copies, this second collection includes seven magnificent stories, among them “Cognitive Space,” winner of the 11th Young Writer Award, and “The Ancient Contract,” selected as a 2021 Problem Novel.
★ Seven stories constructing Kim Cho-yeop‘s unique literary universe: The book includes seven stories—“The Last Leoni,” “Mary’s Dance,” “Laura,” “Shadow of Breath,” “The Ancient Contract,” “Cognitive Space,” and “The Carbine Equation.” With delicate prose, resilient storytelling, and profound reflection on the other, Kim Cho-yeop gathers stories from the far ends of the universe into her singular literary cosmos.
★ Recommended by The Hankyoreh (October 22, 2021), Hankook Ilbo, Seoul Shinmun, Munhwa Ilbo, Kyunghyang Shinmun, Segye Ilbo, and other media.
Description
The dazzling future of Korean literature—Kim Cho-yeop‘s second short story collection is published.
“Do you, too, have something you love deeply but can never fully understand?”
This book contains seven magnificent and moving stories, written with a heart full of love and the desire to understand both the “self” and the “world.” In this collection, with delicate prose, resilient storytelling, and profound reflection on the other, the author—as a keen observer—gathers stories from the far ends of the universe into Kim Cho-yeop’s singular literary cosmos.
Compared with her debut, this book confronts social issues even more directly. Kim Cho-yeop‘s characters all take love and understanding as the foundation of their existence. Yet they do not simply endure and stop moving because of love and understanding; they are not satisfied with the status quo, but long for the subversion of the existing social order.
In The World We Just Left, characters who are excluded and marginalized confront social contradictions, continually questioning the world, leaving the present world behind, and journeying toward a grander new world. What the work displays is not love, understanding, and comfort themselves, but the power of love, the power of understanding, the power of comfort. They do not forget the world they have just left as they embark on a journey toward countless new worlds.
“Do you, too, have something you love deeply but can never fully understand?”
This book contains seven magnificent and moving stories, written with a heart full of love and the desire to understand both the “self” and the “world.” In this collection, with delicate prose, resilient storytelling, and profound reflection on the other, the author—as a keen observer—gathers stories from the far ends of the universe into Kim Cho-yeop’s singular literary cosmos.
Compared with her debut, this book confronts social issues even more directly. Kim Cho-yeop‘s characters all take love and understanding as the foundation of their existence. Yet they do not simply endure and stop moving because of love and understanding; they are not satisfied with the status quo, but long for the subversion of the existing social order.
In The World We Just Left, characters who are excluded and marginalized confront social contradictions, continually questioning the world, leaving the present world behind, and journeying toward a grander new world. What the work displays is not love, understanding, and comfort themselves, but the power of love, the power of understanding, the power of comfort. They do not forget the world they have just left as they embark on a journey toward countless new worlds.
Author
Kim Cho-yeop
Began her literary career in 2018. She is the author of If We Cannot Move at the Speed of Light, The World We Just Left, Two-Sided Shell, Muremosa, The Planet Language Bookstore, When Jellyfish Bloom, The Greenhouse at the End of the Earth, The Dispatched, Books and Coincidence, In Short, a Sci-Fi Game, and others.
She has won the Korean Science Literature Award, the Today’s Writer Award, the Young Writer Award, the Korean Women Leaders Award Young Leader Award, as well as China‘s Nebula Award and Galaxy Award.
Awards: 2019 Today’s Writer Award, 2017 Korean Science Literature Award.
Began her literary career in 2018. She is the author of If We Cannot Move at the Speed of Light, The World We Just Left, Two-Sided Shell, Muremosa, The Planet Language Bookstore, When Jellyfish Bloom, The Greenhouse at the End of the Earth, The Dispatched, Books and Coincidence, In Short, a Sci-Fi Game, and others.
She has won the Korean Science Literature Award, the Today’s Writer Award, the Young Writer Award, the Korean Women Leaders Award Young Leader Award, as well as China‘s Nebula Award and Galaxy Award.
Awards: 2019 Today’s Writer Award, 2017 Korean Science Literature Award.
Contents
The Last Leoni
Mary‘s Dance
Laura
Shadow of Breath
The Ancient Contract
Cognitive Space
The Carbine Equation
Author’s Note
Mary‘s Dance
Laura
Shadow of Breath
The Ancient Contract
Cognitive Space
The Carbine Equation
Author’s Note
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