![]() ![]() My Brilliant Life (translated by Chi-Young Kim, digital review courtesy of Forge Books) is narrated by the sixteen-year-old Areum, and the first chapters focus on his parents. This is a novel about a life less ordinary, and about making the most of what you’ve got, even when to outsiders it may seem that you’ve been dealt a very poor hand, indeed. I’ve been crossing my fingers for a long-form debut in English for quite some time now, and 2021 has finally seen it happen – and luckily, it doesn’t disappoint. ![]() Kim Ae-ran is a writer who’s been on my radar for quite a while now, thanks to the excellent short stories ‘Where Would You Like to Go?’ (translated by Jamie Chang, out in the ASIA Publishers K-Fiction series) and ‘The Future of Silence’ (in the collection of the same name, translated by Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton). While the first of this week’s Korean literature selections probably won’t be on many people’s wishlist, the same certainly can’t be said for today’s choice. ![]()
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