Future of Silence: Fiction by Korean Women | 
"Because the speakers are so old, they‘ve taken on a shriveled look, like rice grains from the Bronze Age stoppered in test tubes—yuck."
-Kim Ae-ran, "The Future of Silence"
Today in odd similes.
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"Because the speakers are so old, they‘ve taken on a shriveled look, like rice grains from the Bronze Age stoppered in test tubes—yuck."
-Kim Ae-ran, "The Future of Silence"
Today in odd similes.
"Inside me was a small glass bead that was hot and dark, or maybe I should say colorless, odorless, and clear enough to see through. Whenever I moved, it worked its way through me, breaking me down little by little. I knew what that glass bead was—it was fear."
-Kim Sagwa, "It's One of Those The-More-I'm-In-Motion-The-Weirder-It-Gets Days, And It's Really Blowing My Mind"
"Things visible are not all there is to the world. There also exist things unseen. And things unexplainable. So how can we say that only things with a reason can exist in this world? They‘re rising up, those unexplainable things, and when they rebel all together, the things with reasons grow feeble in their presence. How could I explain this to a man who spoke of such things as morality and immorality?"
-Kong Sŏn-ok, "The Flowering of Our Lives"
Starting my second Korean book, but this one is actually based in South Korea, which is where I'll actually be traveling, instead of North Korea. This book is a collection of stories and I'm excited to read and understand how their culture influences their writing!
