Snow Falling on Samilpo
Korean Title: 눈 내리는 삼일포
Author: Kim Yeon-su (김연수)
Publisher: Munhak Dongne (문학동네)
ISBN: 9791141619992
Paperback | 296 pages | 133*200mm | 385g
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About This Book
Kim Yeon-su, one of the leading voices in contemporary Korean literature, has established himself as a major writer through his distinctive, meticulous, and beautiful prose and his wide-ranging insights into life. Munhakdongne is pleased to publish Snow Falling on Samilpo, his latest collection of short stories. His seventh collection, the book brings together nine stories with a broader and more diverse range than ever before, four years after I Am Waiting for You (Munhakdongne, 2022).
The collection encompasses an extraordinary variety of subjects. In “Snow Falling on Samilpo,” Kim draws on his characteristic historical imagination to create a fictional episode surrounding a painting by Sim Sa-jeong, an artist of the late Joseon period. “The Witnesses to Our Lives” seamlessly weaves together seemingly unrelated motifs such as baseball, the circus, and pansori, delivering the moving realization that the witness to our own lives is none other than ourselves. In “Where the East Wind Disperses,” Kim displays his delicate imaginative power in a near-future story about a grandfather searching for his granddaughter, who has chosen to abandon her physical body and “upload” her consciousness.
Alongside these varied stories, Kim Yeon-su continues to wrestle with questions about the nature and purpose of creation. What effect does art truly have on our lives? If art has a purpose, what might that purpose be? The difficult answers he has arrived at through these endless questions are woven throughout this new collection.
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