#juhea kim

[commonplacenook]

Life is only bearable because time makes you forget everything. But life is only worthwhile because love makes you remember everything.

Juhea Kim, Beasts of a Little Land

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Review: A Love Story From The End Of The World by Juhea Kim.

Having heard of the reputation of this author and her work (work I really I need to get to) seeing this collection on Netgalley I knew I wanted to read it as soon as I could, and thankfully they gave an ARC to review and I'm glad they did!

What I really appreciate is how the author brings these parts of the world to life from Nice to the frozen spaces of Kvitoya, Juhea uses colour to bring these places to life and the characters in these world a new perspective through her threading of colour through her stories. From elements of chartreuse to the naming of 'Hayang' in the last story (meaning white in Korean) these colours allow these stories to connect and to give these stories emphasis if not sometimes a little heavy-handedly.

In these stories the characters are written with humanity and connection. Connecting and creating new bonds even when the world seems to be going through changes in the climate at a faster rate or maybe a more 'seen' rate to the west, these stories show how human connect and continue living even when the world becomes dystopian in nature quite literally. Stories like 'Biodome' show how normal life become when something extraordinary becomes the ordinary this is clear in 'Bio-Ark' too where people have never known not being on the Ark.

It took me some time to get into this collection of short stories, but getting deeper into this collection I really enjoyed how they connected in their themes and thought and made me really want to delve more into the books of this author. I look forward to reading more.

(Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for the arc for honest review).

[dk-thrive]

… language itself seduced her. She fluttered with the knowledge that certain words in a certain order could rearrange her on the inside, like moving furniture. Words changed and remade her constantly, and no one else could even sense a difference.

— Juhea Kim, from Beasts of a Little Land (Ecco, December 7, 2021)

[romancenjoyer]

For my part, I accepted Nina because she was the one person who let herself in through my door. Back then I was too young to know what causes two people to gravitate toward each other. Only time has shown me the truth: we can choose the minor friends and the minor lovers, but we don’t have any choice in the matter of the people we truly love.

– Juhea Kim, City of Night Birds

[luthienne]

... language itself seduced her. She fluttered with the knowledge that certain words in a certain order could rearrange her on the inside, like moving furniture. Words changed and remade her constantly, and no one else could even sense a difference.

— Juhea Kim, from Beasts of a Little Land

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Title: City of Night Birds | Author: Juhea Kim | Publisher: Ecco (2024)

[recitandote]

Vibrava com o conhecimento de que certas palavras em determinada ordem eram capazes de rearrumá-la por dentro, como mover móveis. Palavras a mudavam e a resconstituíam constantemente, e ninguém nem mesmo percebia a diferença.

Juhea Kim

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