[DeepL Translation - needs review] "Do you like cats?"
A secret confession in the middle of the night
The gentle intruders who crack lives
Son Bomi's second collection of novels, Elegant Night and Cats (Munhwa Geosungsa, 2018), has been widely supported by critics and readers for its precise composition and sophisticated atmosphere. Since she began her work by winning the 21st Century Literature Newcomer Award in 2009 and the Dong-A Ilbo New Young Writers' Prize in 2011, she has published on...
A collection of short stories on a rather ambiguous theme of moments in someones life when a person or event invades or otherwise distrupts their sense of normal.
The stories are all standalone but there are some references sprinkled throughout that suggest they take place in the same reality.
Language wise short stories are always a little harder than novels because you lack context, but overall this wasn't too challenging. The stories were all largely taking place in someones daily life an