Ergebnis von "Kim Bo-Young" in Alle Kategorien

Zwei Liebende wollen heiraten, doch zuvor müssen sie in unterschiedliche Ecken unserer Galaxis reisen. Mithilfe der Relativität wollen sie sicherstellen, dass sie dennoch am selben Tag wieder auf der Erde ankommen. Doch immer wieder machen ihnen unvorhergesehene Zwischenfälle einen Strich durch die Rechnung, und so werden Jahrhunderte vergehen, bis sie wieder auf der Erde eintreffen.

First the flood Next the sickness Last the change Visionary Korean author Kim Bo-young unleashes a Lovecraftian nightmare of infection, transformation, and abomination. “[Kim Bo-young's] fiction is a breathtaking piece of a cinematic art.” —Bong Joon-ho, Academy Award-winning director of...

In the title story, an engaged couple working in distant corners of the galaxy plan to arrive on Earth simultaneously and walk down the aisle together. But small incidents wreak havoc on their vast journeys, pushing the date of their wedding far into the future. As centuries pass on Earth and the land and climate change, one thing is constant: the desire of the lovers to be together. Through two pairs of interlinked stories stories, Kim explores the driving forces of humanity - love, hope, creation, destruction, and the very meaning of existence.

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.