VOL.74/2024.09

 

Brilliant Regards

 

2023.07.03

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grief and Healing Delivered in Beautiful Sentences, Brilliant Regards

The first full-length novel in 12 years by novelist Baik Soulinne, who has earned the trust of critics and readers with her unwavering literary skills.
Talking about the inevitability and limitations experienced during an awkward childhood that you only realize when you grow up, the book offers its sweet and brilliant “best regards” to its readers across time.

Young Haemi closes her mind in the face of overwhelming tragedy and loneliness caused by an accident, her sister’s death, and an abrupt migration to Germany, and lies to people around her so they don’t worry about her.
Other Korean nurses dispatched to Germany help Haemi, and they soon become Haemi’s haven and new home.
But the relief is short-lived – the Asian Financial Crisis hits in 1997, and Haemi goes through another loss as she returns to Korea.
One day, Haemi, who grew up with unhealed wounds, stumbles upon her aunt Seonja’s dairy of her first love, and faces her childhood self.

“I no longer regret looking back on my life.”
A healing, enlightening story of a human being that could not forgive her past self.

Message from my harsh childhood
Brilliant Regards
Written by Baik Soulinne
Published by Munhakdongne

 

 

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