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A breathtakingly beautiful look at existence Kim Cho-yeop's new novel A world filled with spores that spread madness to humans. People are pushed into dark, musty underground cities, where they live half-dead lives. Satisfied with the poor food, and afraid of going mad. But Taerin longs for the ground more than anyone else. Because there was someone who showed him the enchanting colors of the sunset and the twinkling of the stars across the night sky. Taerin wants to become a dispatcher like Master Ijef and stand side by side with him on the ground. I recall Izeph's advice that the dispatcher must harbor not only a fascination with the Earth, but also a hatred for it. One day, just before her final exam, Taerin begins hearing strange voices. She's gripped by fears that she's gone mad... ...Where do these voices come from? This is the story of the dispatched individuals who explore Earth, transformed into an alien planet by a dust storm that crash-lands from space, and ultimately witness a startling truth. |
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I will be a part of you.
Some memories will be engraved in the body, not the brain.
You will sense me instead of remembering me.
love you.
And now let's forget everything together.
--- p.12
“Being a dispatcher is a profession that requires both fascination and hatred.
You have to love something terribly, but at the same time hate it so much that you want to burn it down.
Only those who can endure that will be able to become dispatched personnel.”
--- p.41
There is a landscape that keeps appearing and then disappearing.
In that dreamlike scene, Taerin spins an old brass globe.
A small globe with a heavy weight and soft texture that slides in your hand with a rustling sound.
When I look up, I see Ijeph looking down at Taerin.
Was he smiling then, or did he have a sad look in his eyes… …
--- p.44
The more I wanted, the more the surface of the earth wore away beneath my hands.
Taerin thought constantly.
Do I want to go to the ground?
Do you want to get the ground?
Or is it that you long for the person who chases that earth?
A planet that I have never been to, but is already in my hands, is right before my eyes.
Every time inexplicable emotions surged through her, Taerin turned the globe.
But I knew the truth.
That it is not so easy to reach the ground or someone's heart.
--- p.47
The city had a strange beauty.
A world awash in color.
It was dazzlingly bright, as if bright primary colors had been sprinkled everywhere.
The flooded bodies that had taken over the city were each showing off their colors as if they were competing with each other.
The flooding had a presence as if it were a giant oil painting that used every color to cover the ground, as if the colors were alive in themselves and had taken hold of the entire city.
--- p.114
The floodwaters before his eyes seemed to be whispering to Taerin.
Come closer and take a look at yourself.
Touch it, smell it, and eat it.
“Floodwaters drive people mad.
It devours reason and leads to madness and death… … ”
Taerin muttered out loud so as not to forget that fact.
This city is a place filled with death, not life.
Humans cannot live in these colors.
--- p.115
Now Izef wanted to give the ground to Taerin.
I wanted to give you the sunset and the stars.
It wasn't enough to just be a dispatcher and experience the world.
If Taerin could become a dispatcher someday, she would see the ground with Izeph, but that would only increase her longing and not truly gain the ground.
In order to return the land, the land had to be reclaimed.
The planet with its stars, sunsets, and seas was to become human again.
Some memories will be engraved in the body, not the brain.
You will sense me instead of remembering me.
love you.
And now let's forget everything together.
--- p.12
“Being a dispatcher is a profession that requires both fascination and hatred.
You have to love something terribly, but at the same time hate it so much that you want to burn it down.
Only those who can endure that will be able to become dispatched personnel.”
--- p.41
There is a landscape that keeps appearing and then disappearing.
In that dreamlike scene, Taerin spins an old brass globe.
A small globe with a heavy weight and soft texture that slides in your hand with a rustling sound.
When I look up, I see Ijeph looking down at Taerin.
Was he smiling then, or did he have a sad look in his eyes… …
--- p.44
The more I wanted, the more the surface of the earth wore away beneath my hands.
Taerin thought constantly.
Do I want to go to the ground?
Do you want to get the ground?
Or is it that you long for the person who chases that earth?
A planet that I have never been to, but is already in my hands, is right before my eyes.
Every time inexplicable emotions surged through her, Taerin turned the globe.
But I knew the truth.
That it is not so easy to reach the ground or someone's heart.
--- p.47
The city had a strange beauty.
A world awash in color.
It was dazzlingly bright, as if bright primary colors had been sprinkled everywhere.
The flooded bodies that had taken over the city were each showing off their colors as if they were competing with each other.
The flooding had a presence as if it were a giant oil painting that used every color to cover the ground, as if the colors were alive in themselves and had taken hold of the entire city.
--- p.114
The floodwaters before his eyes seemed to be whispering to Taerin.
Come closer and take a look at yourself.
Touch it, smell it, and eat it.
“Floodwaters drive people mad.
It devours reason and leads to madness and death… … ”
Taerin muttered out loud so as not to forget that fact.
This city is a place filled with death, not life.
Humans cannot live in these colors.
--- p.115
Now Izef wanted to give the ground to Taerin.
I wanted to give you the sunset and the stars.
It wasn't enough to just be a dispatcher and experience the world.
If Taerin could become a dispatcher someday, she would see the ground with Izeph, but that would only increase her longing and not truly gain the ground.
In order to return the land, the land had to be reclaimed.
The planet with its stars, sunsets, and seas was to become human again.
--- pp.313~314
Publisher's Review
A breathtakingly beautiful look at existence
Kim Cho-yeop's new novel
“I will become a part of you.
You will sense me instead of remembering me.
love you.
And now let's forget everything together."
Kim Cho-yeop's new novel, "The Dispatchers," has been published.
This is the second full-length novel following the first full-length novel, 『Greenhouse at the End of the Earth』 (2021), which sold over 150,000 copies, through a world stained with despair called 'Dust', the blue-emitting vine 'Mosbana', and the story of people who seem weak but create change.
Readers who remember the surprising shock and profound emotion that comes from a plant ecologist's pursuit of the secrets of the Mosvana, leading to the unexpected realization of the world's reconstruction and salvation, will not be able to pass up this novel.
The longest story the author has ever written.
"The Dispatchers" begins with a suspicious note written by a girl who was adopted into a family one winter.
The girl has difficulty adjusting to the unfamiliar environment and can only look out the window, wait for someone, or write letters that she cannot send.
The adults in the house find a note in the girl's room, whose meaning is difficult to understand, as she falls asleep from crying.
“I will become a part of you.
Some memories will be engraved in the body, not the brain.
You will sense me instead of remembering me.
love you.
And now let us forget everything together.” (From “Prologue”)
Adults are worried when they see a note with content that seems unlikely to have been written by a child.
To whom is this note addressed? Or is it a memo, written down from someone else's words? Like a roller coaster slowly ascending to its climax, Kim Cho-yeop takes the reader on a journey from page to page, and then the next.
As readers follow the story without realizing it, they will realize that they have reached the top without even realizing it, and they will witness a landscape of existence so beautiful that they will be reminded that this story is nothing less than a science fiction novel.
This is a genre that asks questions that break down existing perceptions full of limitations and explores them together with the characters in the story.
Where are the boundaries of the existence called 'I'?
A poignant and wondrous question from Kim Cho-yeop, the thrilling writer.
“Being a dispatcher is a profession that requires both fascination and hatred.
“You have to love something terribly, and at the same time hate it so much that you want to burn it.”
A world filled with spores that spread madness to humans.
People are pushed into dark, musty underground cities, where they live half-dead lives.
While being content with the poor food, I was also afraid that I might go mad.
But Taerin longs for the ground more than anyone else.
It was his teacher, Ijef, who showed him the enchanting colors of the sunset and the twinkling of the stars across the night sky.
Taerin wants to become a dispatcher like Ijeph and explore the surface with him.
If that dream comes true, I hope that I can stand as an equal colleague, rather than an immature disciple who needs to be protected by Izef.
While enrolling in the Dispatcher Academy and completing the required courses, Taerin struggles because she cannot use the Neurobrick memory aid like others.
This is because the side effects of the late procedure have severed the connection to Neurobrick in my head.
However, having completed all the courses while demonstrating a high level of resistance to madness that is incomparable to others, he is now only awaiting the qualification test for dispatch.
Suddenly, Taerin starts hearing strange voices.
A voice that sounds familiar, like a boy or a girl.
Could it be a stress-induced auditory hallucination, or could it be a problem caused by a neurobrick error, as Ijeph said?
Or perhaps she'd been driven mad by a madness she hadn't realized? Taerin sometimes ignored the voice, sometimes reacted to it, and as she reached the final test on Earth,
Taerin, who went out to the ground, was overwhelmed by the scenery shining with brilliant colors as if oil paints had been dropped on it.
The world of the flooding entities that destroy the human ego was so beautiful.
Taerin takes each step toward her destination, recalling Ijeph's advice that a dispatcher must harbor not only a fascination with the Earth but also a hatred for it.
With a strange voice that keeps coming.
From the world of plants to the world of fungi
“It made me realize just how inadequate human sensory resources are to imagine it, but it was definitely a task worth taking on at least once.”
Kim Cho-yeop took a short story presented at an art exhibition a few years ago and turned it into a long novel, “The Dispatchers.”
In this work, he examines what makes humans human, and through this, explores where the boundaries of humanity begin and end.
What he has been focusing on this time, while pondering his own research process and answers, is 'fungi', which includes organisms such as mold and mushrooms.
A being that comes to mind as a sweet yet nauseating smell, along with all the processes and results of decomposition and decay.
He, who came up with the 'overflow body' in the novel using fungi as a model, said, "I felt anew how inadequate human sensory resources are to imagine it, but it was a task worth challenging at least once" (author's note).
"The Dispatchers" is the story of the dispatchers who explore Earth, which has been transformed into an unfamiliar planet by dust that crash-lands from space, and ultimately witness a surprising truth.
The story of the protagonist, who trains, undergoes tests, and advances to the surface to become a dispatcher, is itself a spectacular and exciting series of episodes, but as has always been the case with Kim Cho-yeop's novels, the final destination the reader arrives at is a completely unexpected one.
What feelings do you have when you stand before this landscape? May that feeling refresh your imagination about yourself and your perspective on the world.
This is probably the only wish of this amazing novelist who continues to expand and renew his own world of works.
Kim Cho-yeop's new novel
“I will become a part of you.
You will sense me instead of remembering me.
love you.
And now let's forget everything together."
Kim Cho-yeop's new novel, "The Dispatchers," has been published.
This is the second full-length novel following the first full-length novel, 『Greenhouse at the End of the Earth』 (2021), which sold over 150,000 copies, through a world stained with despair called 'Dust', the blue-emitting vine 'Mosbana', and the story of people who seem weak but create change.
Readers who remember the surprising shock and profound emotion that comes from a plant ecologist's pursuit of the secrets of the Mosvana, leading to the unexpected realization of the world's reconstruction and salvation, will not be able to pass up this novel.
The longest story the author has ever written.
"The Dispatchers" begins with a suspicious note written by a girl who was adopted into a family one winter.
The girl has difficulty adjusting to the unfamiliar environment and can only look out the window, wait for someone, or write letters that she cannot send.
The adults in the house find a note in the girl's room, whose meaning is difficult to understand, as she falls asleep from crying.
“I will become a part of you.
Some memories will be engraved in the body, not the brain.
You will sense me instead of remembering me.
love you.
And now let us forget everything together.” (From “Prologue”)
Adults are worried when they see a note with content that seems unlikely to have been written by a child.
To whom is this note addressed? Or is it a memo, written down from someone else's words? Like a roller coaster slowly ascending to its climax, Kim Cho-yeop takes the reader on a journey from page to page, and then the next.
As readers follow the story without realizing it, they will realize that they have reached the top without even realizing it, and they will witness a landscape of existence so beautiful that they will be reminded that this story is nothing less than a science fiction novel.
This is a genre that asks questions that break down existing perceptions full of limitations and explores them together with the characters in the story.
Where are the boundaries of the existence called 'I'?
A poignant and wondrous question from Kim Cho-yeop, the thrilling writer.
“Being a dispatcher is a profession that requires both fascination and hatred.
“You have to love something terribly, and at the same time hate it so much that you want to burn it.”
A world filled with spores that spread madness to humans.
People are pushed into dark, musty underground cities, where they live half-dead lives.
While being content with the poor food, I was also afraid that I might go mad.
But Taerin longs for the ground more than anyone else.
It was his teacher, Ijef, who showed him the enchanting colors of the sunset and the twinkling of the stars across the night sky.
Taerin wants to become a dispatcher like Ijeph and explore the surface with him.
If that dream comes true, I hope that I can stand as an equal colleague, rather than an immature disciple who needs to be protected by Izef.
While enrolling in the Dispatcher Academy and completing the required courses, Taerin struggles because she cannot use the Neurobrick memory aid like others.
This is because the side effects of the late procedure have severed the connection to Neurobrick in my head.
However, having completed all the courses while demonstrating a high level of resistance to madness that is incomparable to others, he is now only awaiting the qualification test for dispatch.
Suddenly, Taerin starts hearing strange voices.
A voice that sounds familiar, like a boy or a girl.
Could it be a stress-induced auditory hallucination, or could it be a problem caused by a neurobrick error, as Ijeph said?
Or perhaps she'd been driven mad by a madness she hadn't realized? Taerin sometimes ignored the voice, sometimes reacted to it, and as she reached the final test on Earth,
Taerin, who went out to the ground, was overwhelmed by the scenery shining with brilliant colors as if oil paints had been dropped on it.
The world of the flooding entities that destroy the human ego was so beautiful.
Taerin takes each step toward her destination, recalling Ijeph's advice that a dispatcher must harbor not only a fascination with the Earth but also a hatred for it.
With a strange voice that keeps coming.
From the world of plants to the world of fungi
“It made me realize just how inadequate human sensory resources are to imagine it, but it was definitely a task worth taking on at least once.”
Kim Cho-yeop took a short story presented at an art exhibition a few years ago and turned it into a long novel, “The Dispatchers.”
In this work, he examines what makes humans human, and through this, explores where the boundaries of humanity begin and end.
What he has been focusing on this time, while pondering his own research process and answers, is 'fungi', which includes organisms such as mold and mushrooms.
A being that comes to mind as a sweet yet nauseating smell, along with all the processes and results of decomposition and decay.
He, who came up with the 'overflow body' in the novel using fungi as a model, said, "I felt anew how inadequate human sensory resources are to imagine it, but it was a task worth challenging at least once" (author's note).
"The Dispatchers" is the story of the dispatchers who explore Earth, which has been transformed into an unfamiliar planet by dust that crash-lands from space, and ultimately witness a surprising truth.
The story of the protagonist, who trains, undergoes tests, and advances to the surface to become a dispatcher, is itself a spectacular and exciting series of episodes, but as has always been the case with Kim Cho-yeop's novels, the final destination the reader arrives at is a completely unexpected one.
What feelings do you have when you stand before this landscape? May that feeling refresh your imagination about yourself and your perspective on the world.
This is probably the only wish of this amazing novelist who continues to expand and renew his own world of works.
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: October 13, 2023
- Page count, weight, size: 432 pages | 587g | 135*210*30mm
- ISBN13: 9791191587524
- ISBN10: 1191587525
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