5/21/2023 0 Comments The hen who dreamedLife outside the cage isn’t quite what she expected, though. This brush with death is almost the end, but the plucky bird manages to come through and is rewarded with her freedom. Enjoying the views of the outside world she can see from her position near the door, she dreams of freedom, and the opportunity arises when she is taken out for culling. Sun-Mi Hwang’s The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly (translated by Chi-Young Kim) is the story of Sprout, a hen trapped in a coop inside a farm shed. Luckily, though, I picked it up along with my most recent read at the university library, and it turned out to be most enjoyable – even if it took me less time to read it than to finish off this review □ However, there was one prominent book that, while not actively avoiding, I certainly wasn’t making much of an effort to track down, mainly because of a few dissenting voices among the positive reviews. My interest in Korean literature coincided with the release of a wave of books about five years ago now, including Dalkey Archive Press’ ambitious Library of Korean Literature selection, and I’ve since got around to trying the majority of those early offerings.
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