Ill Go On Hwang Jungeun Emily Yae Won Translation by Hwang Jungeun, Emily Yae Won (translation) instant download after payment.

Winner of the Daesan Literary Prize

A mix of oblique fantasy, hard-edge social critique, & offbeat romance

"That's how it generally is with Aeja's stories. They're as potent as a putrid peach. Listening to her words your head starts to droop with their sticky juice trickling down your ears, until all you can do is succumb to the saccharine flow."

From one of South Korea's most acclaimed young authors comes the story of 2 sisters, Sora & Nana. When Sora was 10 years old, & Nana was 9, their father died in a freak accident at the factory where he worked, his body sucked under a huge cogwheel, crushed beyond recognition. Their mother Aeja, numb with grief, gives in to torpor, developing an unhealthy obsession with the paradoxical violence implicit in life.

Now adults, Sora finds herself dreaming of the past when she discovers that Nana is pregnant. Her initial reaction is shock – though they live together, she never even realised her younger sister had a lover – & Nana's icy response to...

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“...100 Shadows is about the people who work in a set of buildings scheduled for redevelopment: the older generation who run the repair shops & spare parts shops because they know of no other life, & the young people who have menial jobs running errands for this older generation. Both generations are trapped by poverty. Hwang’s own father ran a repair shop in just such a building...

The novel follows the slow-burn developing relationship of the two young workers from the electronics market whom we meet in the opening pages. But Hwang doesn’t think of the novel as a love story. For her, it’s a tribute to the underclass who live on the margins. Even on these margins human decency is possible...

In One Hundred Shadows Hwang has created a moving tribute to the lives & words of a group of people who represent the victims of the ongoing march of an unthinking capitalism.” — Philip Gowman, London Korean Links