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! Updated: 2024-09-02

  • Posted by EunHaeng NaMu Publishing Co., Ltd. on 2024-08-26

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Top 100 fiction bestseller list for 33 weeks

Gu and Dam, the main characters of this novel, are a couple brought together by destiny. Even though they seem to have strayed apart, they rotate along a circle, while being tied to each other forever. Sometimes they move at a different speed affected by unexpected events that shatter their world, but they are destined to come across each other like the two dots on the curve of life, moving along the same orbit. Some may say it is a brutal kind of relationship, or some may say it is love in its perfect form. Yet unfortunately, a tragedy suddenly befalls them: the death of a lover, the undeniable end of life.

The story begins with Dam finding the dead body of her lover Gu. She wraps her arms around Gu, lying cold on the streets, her voice filled with loneliness that only those stricken with grief can have. Her eyes lose focus and seem to gaze at the landscape of unreality, instead of the cruel reality. Then, overcome with deep sorrow of loss and grief, she starts to nibble the flesh of Gu's dead body.

Though the novel is a present-tense account, time seems to stop upon the death of Gu, and the narration of Dam’s monologue all comes from memories that she shared with Gu. Then the story slowly rolls back to the past when they were together. Eating the lover’s body, Dam stays in the past. For her, eating him would mean eating the time of his life, swallowing their past whole. It would mean a ritual. It would mean courtesy the living extends to the dead. Dam holds a ritual for Gu by eating his body. Tragedy is not something one can prevent. Tragedy is something that has its roots in the essence. That is why Dam has no other option but to believe in the meaning of the ritual she’s performing. She swallows Gu’s body to keep him within her body, to keep him alive within her.

Author Bio 작가 소개

최진영

Choi Jin-young최진영

Choi Jin-young (b. 1981) was born on a snowy day in Seoul and moved around often during her childhood. She made her literary debut in 2006 by winning the Silcheon Munhak New Writer’s Award and has since won various awards, including the 2010 Hankyoreh Literary Award, the 2014 Shin Dong-yup Literary Prize, the 2020 Baek Shin-ae Literature Award, and the 2020 Manhae Prize for Literature. She has authored the novels The Name of the Girl Who Brushed Past You Is . . ., The Never-Ending Song, Why Did I Not Die, The Proof of Ku, To the Warm Horizon, and Dear Yi Jeya; the novella A Dream of Becoming Me; and the short-story collections A Spinning Top and Winter Break. The English translation of To the Warm Horizon is forthcoming from Honford Star in May, 2021.

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