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Come, Oh Night!

Author

Lee Seonga

Publisher

EunHaeng NaMu Publishing Co., Ltd.

Categories

Literature & Fiction

Audience

Adult

Overseas Licensing

Keywords

  • #State violence
  • #human rights
  • #racial issues
  • #violence
  • #history
  • #literature

Copyright Contact

Lee Hyaemyung

  • Publication Date

    2021-11-29
  • No. of pages

    212
  • ISBN

    9791167371058
  • Dimensions

    140 * 210
Overview

A book that portrays the tragic story of an individual mixed up in state violence and the struggle of the characters trying to overcome the trauma resulting from that violence.

Book Intro

(English) Come, Oh Night!

The book simultaneously recalls the Balkans, which experienced a painful period of civil war and genocide, and the Jeju Uprising of April 3, a cruel event in the modern history of South Korea, and interrogates the historical question of state violence, which continues to this day, from a broader literary perspective.

The novel argues that from the Jeju Uprising to the Balkans, state violence, which has been similarly repeated throughout the world as well as in South Korea, has been exerted in the name of justice or for the purpose of patriotism, and that it is still an ongoing problem that has not been resolved. Reading this book, the reader will feel the pain of the victims, whom we had “ignored while struggling with our own painful time.” A family scattered due to the traumas of war, young people who wander aimlessly unable to settle in any one place, a husband who can never forget how his wife was shot dead before his eyes, an ordinary student studying overseas who was suddenly turned into a member of a spy ring.... As readers turn page after page, reading the stories of the victims that the writer portrays, they will face the heartbreaking lives of people in their own present day, and how they had ignored and neglected the tragedy of the times. But the writer does not simply end with rage and sighs toward state violence. She responds to the sacrifice and damage from state violence from the perspective of healing and reconciliation, telling readers that only when we understand and engage in the tragic sorrow, will we be able to completely stop the violence.

We are living in an unprecedented time of peace and prosperity, but violence still exists in all corners of the world. The violence was exerted in the name of justice and country, and the innocent citizens accepted the damage and sacrifices of that violence. Marco from Croatia and Byeon Isuk from Seoul, the characters in this novel are not the only ones. The book asks readers to remember the victims we neglected and ignored and to change the way we think about and perceive state violence. It tells us that we can only confront violence with a bigger question when we understand and acknowledge the victims as well as express our anger and grief.

About the Author

Lee Seonga



(English) Lee Seonga began her career as a writer by releasing her short story, “Mio’s Country” in 1998. She received the 2014 Segye Ilbo Literary Award for her novel, Why Did the Cormorant Go to Sea?, the 2018 Yi Tae-jun Literary Award  for her short story, “Painting Shadows,” and the Jeju April 3 Peace Literary Award in 2021 with her novel Come, Oh Night! She has published the collection of stories, How Close Is the Typhoon? and Climax.

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