- Overview
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- Book Intro
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May parts ways with Johan, whom she loved with great devotion, and heads to India. Although she comes to practice yoga, instead of getting peace of mind or enlightenment, her heart becomes heavy from the unreasonable and irrational reality in front of her. This book portrays May's desperation during her training in India, the country of ten thousand gods. Because salvation is so far away, what the novel actually shows you is our reality full of agony. However, the language of pain does not merely finish in vain but evolves into a more active ignition. The writer wants readers to emphasize their own pains through May. Through this method, she wishes every living being in pain to live on, and at the end witness the brilliance of the sunrise from the top of the hill of their struggles.
- About the Author
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Kim Hye-na
Born in Seoul in 1982, Kim Hye-na majored in Korean Literature at Cheongju University. After graduating from university, she completed the yoga instructor course in Korea, and studied yoga asana, yoga philosophy and Sanskrit at the KPJAYI, an institute for yoga in India. She won the 34th Writer of the Day Award in 2010, and the 4th Surim Literature Award in 2016. Her works include a number of novels, Jerry, Junk and My Goldstar Phone, a short story collection, Green Tangerine and an essay collection, Things that Keep My Breath.
