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Cocktail, Love, Zombies
: Safehouse Short 2

Author

Cho Yeeun

Publisher

Safehouse Inc.

Categories

Genre Literature

Audience

Adult

Overseas Licensing

Keywords

  • #horror
  • #thriller
  • #fantasy
  • #zombie
  • #Genre fiction

Copyright Contact

Hwang Chanjoo

  • Publication Date

    2020-04-13
  • No. of pages

    162
  • ISBN

    9791190174756
  • Dimensions

    100 * 182
Overview

Cho Yae-eun's short story collection, features four tales: 'Invitation,' 'Wetland Love,' 'Cocktail, Love, Zombie,' and 'Overlap Knife, Knife.'

Book Intro

Cocktail, Love, Zombies

 

“A Darkness So Vivid”

Some feelings are often ignored: the dark and unpleasant feelings experienced by women, children, the poor, and the socially awkward. When they try to explain how they feel, people say that they’re being too sensitive, or that they’re making a big deal out of nothing. In Cocktail, Love, and Zombies, Cho defies such voices by bringing to light the overlooked feelings of the marginalized. The feelings have substance and bring real pain to those who experience them.

 

“An Invitation”

“I think you’re a bit long-waisted,” “You have a narrow forehead,” “I really didn’t like your outfit last time,” says the protagonist’s boyfriend. The words never uttered in retort by the protagonist turn into a prickly thorn in her throat.

 

“Wetland Love”

Unresolved darkness remains unresolved even after one’s death. A spirit who died a lonely death remains where she is, forever unwelcome.

 

“Cocktails, Love, and Zombies”

A woman, who has devoted her life to taking care of her zombie-turned-husband, blubbers, “I don’t know how I’ll manage without that brute!”

 

“Overlapped Knife, Knife”

A deeply buried pain turns into a seed for tragedy. A man who inflicts violence on his family stabs his wife with a knife, and their child, a witness, stabs him with the same knife.

 

The Warmth of Cruelty

The characters in Cho’s stories, who have never consoled adequately for their prolonged pain, take up weapons in the end—to free themselves of those who have oppressed them, and of the world created by the oppressors. Wanting a permanent break from the past, they lightly set aside social morality. The rules of the author’s genre of choice—horror thriller—go perfectly with the stories.

Oddly enough, the cruel scenes in the stories leave us with warmth and affection in our hearts. When a friend curses and swears at those who have harassed us, it is the friend’s caring heart that stays in our memories, not the crude language. There’s a certain warmth in Cocktail, Love, and Zombies, beyond the guns and knives, the blood and screams. No pain experienced by anyone is acceptable. It’s okay for us to fly into a rage. No one is criticized for getting blood on their hands. We just move forward, hand in hand. This kind of empathy, characteristic of genre fiction, is possible because the stories in this collection, too, are genre fiction.

About the Author

Cho Yeeun



(English) Cho Yeeun, born in the 90s, is a bestselling author who made her debut by winning two literary contests with her first-ever short story and novel.

She won the Grand Prize at the 4th Kyobo Book Story Contest in 2017 with the novel, Shift, and the Excellence Prize at the 2nd Goldenbough Time Leap Fiction Contest in 2016 with the short story, “Overlapped Knife, Knife.”

Her works include the short story collection, Cocktails, Love, and Zombies (2020), and the novels Snowball Drive (2021), New Seoul Park Jelly Vendor Massacre (2019), and Shift: One Who Transfers Pain (2016).

 

(Japanese) 1990年生まれ。生涯初の短編、長編小説が2つの公募で受賞してデビュー。ベストセラー作家。

‐第4回教保文庫ストーリー公募展大賞『シフト(2017)』、第2回黄金の枝タイムリープ小説公募展優秀賞(2016)『オーバーラップナイフ、ナイフ』

‐短編集『カクテル、ラブ、ゾンビ』(2020)、長編小説『スノーボールドライブ』(2021)、長編小説『ニューソウルパーク、ゼリー売りの大虐殺』(2019)、『シフト:苦痛を移す者』(2016)

Selection

Selected for ARKO’s second literature sharing project in 2020


Selected for “This Book, Again” (a re-cover project) by KPIPA


Bestseller Rank

"Number 7 on the 2022 Kyobo Book Bestseller List "


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