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Summer Outside

Author

Kim Aeran

Publisher

Munhakdongne Publishing Group

Categories

Literature & Fiction

Audience

Adult

Overseas Licensing

Keywords

  • #Pain
  • #sympathy
  • #empathy
  • #Yi Sang Literary Award
  • #Minorities in society

Copyright Contact

Kate Han

  • Publication Date

    2017-06-28
  • No. of pages

    272
  • ISBN

    9788954646079
  • Dimensions

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Overview

This is a collection of seven masterpieces by Kim Aeran, a writer who seems to never disappoint.

Book Intro

This collection features seven works, including the 37th Yi Sang Literary Award winner The Future of Silence and the 8th Young Writer Award winner Where Would You Like to Go?

The Onset of Winter, the first featured work, follows the painful life of a young couple who lost their child in an accident. Kim leads readers into sympathizing with the pain of others and shows how we turn our heads away when the pain exceeds what we are willing to bear.

Covering Hand tells the story of an elderly person who dies during a tussle with a group of teenagers. Jay, the son of the main character and witness to the incident, becomes subject to unfair prejudice simply because he comes from a multi-cultural family. Instead of moving the character into a pure narrative without prejudices, however, Kim Aeran introduces the possibility of binding him into another difficult situation of prejudice. Through this story, readers will realize that we all have a tendency to assume and judge casually and be dismayed at the thought of trying to sympathize with others in the simplest, most convenient way.

Summer Outside tells stories of multifaceted people, from those whom we thought we knew well to others we thought had nothing to do with us. It can be considered a result of the effort to create a new narrative instead of relying on existing ones to reach out to others.

Since she first came onto the scene, Kim Aeran has given readers a special experience, a feeling of intimacy that arises when we read about our current place in life through our native language. This is true even if that place were at the edge of a steep, unstable cliff and the language were that of the last remaining speaker on earth and undeliverable to others. Summer Outside contains seven such stories, all written with a loving embrace of ambiguity.

About the Author

Kim Aeran



Born in 1980 in Incheon, Kim Ae-ran studied playwriting (BFA) at the Korean National University of Arts. She received the 1st Daesan Literary Prize in Fiction with her short story The House Where One Does Not Knock, which was published in The Quarterly Changbi in 2003. In 2005, she received awards from the Daesan Foundation Fund and the 38th Hankook Ilbo Literary Prize.

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