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Cargando... I'm Waiting for You: And Other Storiespor Kim Bo-young
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. The two parts of the book affected me in two separate ways. The first and last stories could be put together as a novella, “I’m Waiting for You” and “On My Way.” They show a separated engaged couple trying to get to each other so they can marry but faster than light travel adds years and decades to their quest. One spends their time alone and depressed and rather self-destructive, the other is surrounded by people who hate them yet works constantly to make life better. It's kind of like the problem of picking the wrong line at the supermarket but on a galactic scale. I loved these stories and would have given the book 5 stars if they were the only ones presented. Unfortunately, the other two connected stories could also have made a novella, one I would gladly ignore. “The Prophet of Corruption” and “That One Life,” are Buddhist world-building contrasting the need for oneness with individuality and wondering if pain and suffering or support offer a better environment for learning. I think they won a prize of some sort, but to me, they were senseless naval gazing. So, overall, 3 stars for the whole collection. ( ) The 1st story is about relativity and how people might think about time during different experiences of space travel and return to earth - starts off light-hearted but becomes somewhat melancholy as the returns to Earth show more and more devastation. 2nd story is a philosophical exploration of the nature of existence, using the Bhuddist metaphor of the bardo - a place between death and reincarnation where one can experience enlightenment or hallucination. It's interesting but goes on too long. 3rd story is the voice of the potential bride from story 1. More of a traditional tale of a disparate band of shipmates who gradually turn into a heirarchical totalitarian society. The end notes of the author, translators, and the 2 people the bride and groom stories were originally written for give valuable insights. I loved half of this collection - the title story and it’s twin (4 stars), a charming love story in two acts that can only have gained resonance for being read after a year of life more or less on hold, and one I liked all the more for its theme of enduring hope. I persevered through the central story in the collection (The Prophet of Corruption) and found it rewarding in the end but not really to my taste - it’s more philosophical, an intellectual thought experiment that I found rather dry (3 stars) 3.5 stars Full review I received a free copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"Her fiction is a breath-taking piece of a cinematic art itself. Reminiscent of the world we experienced in Matrix, Inception, and Dark City, still it leads us to this entirely original structure, which is a ground-breaking, mystic literary and cinematic experience. Indeed, powerful and graceful."--Bong Joon-ho, Oscar-winning director of Parasite In this mind-expanding work of speculative fiction, available in English for the first time, one of South Korea's most treasured writers explores the driving forces of humanity--love, hope, creation, destruction, and the very meaning of existence--in two pairs of thematically interconnected stories. Two worlds, four stories, infinite possibilities In "I'm Waiting for You" and "On My Way," an engaged couple coordinate their separate missions to distant corners of the galaxy to ensure--through relativity--they can arrive back on Earth simultaneously to make it down the aisle. But small incidents wreak havoc on space and time, driving their wedding date further away. As centuries on Earth pass and the land and climate change, one thing is constant: the desire of the lovers to be together. In two separate yet linked stories, Kim Bo-Young cleverly demonstrate the idea love that is timeless and hope springs eternal, despite seemingly insurmountable challenges and the deepest despair. In "The Prophet of Corruption" and "That One Life," humanity is viewed through the eyes of its creators: godlike beings for which everything on Earth--from the richest woman to a speck of dirt--is an extension of their will. When one of the creations questions the righteousness of this arrangement, it is deemed a perversion--a disease--that must be excised and cured. Yet the Prophet Naban, whose "child" is rebelling, isn't sure the rebellion is bad. What if that which is considered criminal is instead the natural order--and those who condemn it corrupt? Exploring the dichotomy between the philosophical and the corporeal, Kim ponders the fate of free-will, as she considers the most basic of questions: who am I? No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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