I Wrote That's How It Was
Korean Title: 그랬다고 적었다
Author: Ae-ran Kim (김애란)
Publisher: Munhak Dongne (문학동네)
ISBN: 9791141618575
Paperback | 220 pages | 133*200mm | 286g
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About This Book
Novelist Kim Ae-ran sends her summer greetings with a new book. In recent years, she has focused on capturing the landscape of contemporary Korean society in meticulous detail through fiction, publishing the novel One of the Two Is a Lie (2024) and the short story collection I Said Goodbye (2025). This time, however, the vessel for her new stories is not fiction but prose.
Through this genre, where the author’s own quiet voice resonates instead of the voice of a fictional narrator, we encounter the vivid and multifaceted Kim Ae-ran who wrote the works we have loved for so long. These facets reveal her as a person living an ordinary life, a creator, and a member of society.
As a person navigating everyday life, Kim Ae-ran watches a dog running freely through the expansive refuge of Jeju Island, taking in a kind of green landscape unlike anything found in the metropolis. She also discovers a new side of someone she had misunderstood for a long time.
As a creator, she reflects on what it means to be human while watching the emergence of the AI chatbot ChatGPT. As a member of society, she looks back on the years of COVID-19 that we all experienced together, reconsidering the meaning of true independence and of other people in our lives.
These different facets are not strictly separated. Instead, they overlap, interfere with one another, and continually influence each other. At their foundation lies a humble and flexible attitude: an acceptance of oneself as a human being with limits, both physical and emotional.
I Wrote That's How It Was is a quiet yet intimate record of a writer looking at herself, other people, and the world around her, and finding meaning in the imperfect conditions of being human.
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