See you in a good place
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Book Introduction
- A word from MD
- An imperfect but beautiful life that only exists onceA collection of short stories by author Lee Yu-ri, titled “Broccoli Punch.”
The characters/animals in the novel are loosely connected by relationships that can be short or long.
And the boundary between life and death they wander on is warmly expressed in a lively style.
A mysterious novel that encourages you to 'enjoy today to the fullest and share many stories.'
July 18, 2023. Novel/Poetry PD Kim Yu-ri
Between sweet dreams and cold reality
A world of light like a mist, filled with both sorrow and sparkle
Traces of deep love etched in a fleeting moment, at the end of life.
These stories tell us not to lose our affection for people.
In the end, I too had no choice but to love passionately.
Kim Cho-yeop (novelist)
Since her debut in 2020 when her work “Red Fruit” was selected for the [Kyunghyang Shinmun] New Year’s Literary Contest, author Lee Yu-ri has received praise for making readers “look forward to the next work” with each of her published works. Following the publication of two short story collections, “Broccoli Punch” and “The World of All Things,” author Lee Yu-ri has now published her first collection of short stories, “Meet Me in a Good Place,” through Anon Books.
In her previously published works, author Lee Yu-ri has confronted the incomprehensible reality with transcendent imagination, and has convinced us with her unique optimism, sometimes cheerfully and sometimes indifferently, through her own delicate descriptions. In “Meet Me in a Good Place,” she weaves the story with even greater depth.
The author, with his own wit and refined prose, injects a unique sense of hope into a life that is difficult, arduous, and even cruel, ultimately lifting the readers' bodies and minds.
The six novels included here depict the final moments of life, when characters intertwined through fleeting encounters witness their own deaths and finally enter a world of true nothingness.
Just as there is no life that is not precious, there is no death that is not heartbreaking.
The author describes the sorrow conveyed by this moment of death in a poignant and detailed manner.
The heavy sentences created in this way are ironically lively and rhythmic, and their resonance is considerable.
This makes us realize once again why readers love and wait for Lee Yuri's novels.
The reason why the protagonists, who lived “days where there is nothing to be happy or sad, only busy with living” (“Nine Lives”), suddenly face death and feel despair and emptiness, and then find hope again is because this work reminds us that we loved and were loved at the end of our lives.
We read Lee Yuri's ontological reflections, exploring the emotions of regret, longing, and affection that unfold at the scene of a life's disappearance.
I hope to share the diverse possibilities unique to Lee Yuri's novels while contemplating the back alleys of life, which are neither eternal nor complete.
A world of light like a mist, filled with both sorrow and sparkle
Traces of deep love etched in a fleeting moment, at the end of life.
These stories tell us not to lose our affection for people.
In the end, I too had no choice but to love passionately.
Kim Cho-yeop (novelist)
Since her debut in 2020 when her work “Red Fruit” was selected for the [Kyunghyang Shinmun] New Year’s Literary Contest, author Lee Yu-ri has received praise for making readers “look forward to the next work” with each of her published works. Following the publication of two short story collections, “Broccoli Punch” and “The World of All Things,” author Lee Yu-ri has now published her first collection of short stories, “Meet Me in a Good Place,” through Anon Books.
In her previously published works, author Lee Yu-ri has confronted the incomprehensible reality with transcendent imagination, and has convinced us with her unique optimism, sometimes cheerfully and sometimes indifferently, through her own delicate descriptions. In “Meet Me in a Good Place,” she weaves the story with even greater depth.
The author, with his own wit and refined prose, injects a unique sense of hope into a life that is difficult, arduous, and even cruel, ultimately lifting the readers' bodies and minds.
The six novels included here depict the final moments of life, when characters intertwined through fleeting encounters witness their own deaths and finally enter a world of true nothingness.
Just as there is no life that is not precious, there is no death that is not heartbreaking.
The author describes the sorrow conveyed by this moment of death in a poignant and detailed manner.
The heavy sentences created in this way are ironically lively and rhythmic, and their resonance is considerable.
This makes us realize once again why readers love and wait for Lee Yuri's novels.
The reason why the protagonists, who lived “days where there is nothing to be happy or sad, only busy with living” (“Nine Lives”), suddenly face death and feel despair and emptiness, and then find hope again is because this work reminds us that we loved and were loved at the end of our lives.
We read Lee Yuri's ontological reflections, exploring the emotions of regret, longing, and affection that unfold at the scene of a life's disappearance.
I hope to share the diverse possibilities unique to Lee Yuri's novels while contemplating the back alleys of life, which are neither eternal nor complete.
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index
duck boat
Late-night dash
The end of the world
Nine lives
Eternal Girl
Developers of this world
Author's Note
Late-night dash
The end of the world
Nine lives
Eternal Girl
Developers of this world
Author's Note
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Of course, it wasn't terrible, but that wasn't what I thought was truly terrible.
I don't know what I've become now, but I can move and think, so I must at least be on the ground, and if so, isn't this truly terrifying?
This boring and meaningless life doesn't end with death, and I have to exist as something again.
--- p.68
What about you?
Kangsan, you are sitting there with an expression on your face that says you don't care if you die right now.
Do you sometimes regret it too?
Do you think about those you sent away back then, the mistakes you made that could have been undone?
Well, I don't know if I can say this, but there's still a chance.
You are a better person than me.
In many ways.
So please, wake up.
--- pp.97~98
It was of little comfort to me that Hyesu considered all humans except me harmful.
Because that's not what I wanted to be.
I walked quickly towards Hyesu, who was already far away.
Even with this body, my heart still aches, and I realize anew that I can feel the pain of the heart.
--- p.145
I said this.
Love is wanting to be with you every day, wanting to know everything, and thinking about you constantly.
Of course, they were right in some ways, but they were just a tiny star in the vast universe of love.
Just as the absence of a single star does not make the universe any less of a universe, so it is with love.
The moment you define love, it becomes small and flat in an instant.
The job of someone who loves someone is not to confirm their love.
Just enjoying today, which was created by tens of millions of strokes of luck, and sharing many stories.
--- p.205
What kind of mindset did the developers of the world have when they created this?
Why was it created and how was it operated?
What role do each member of the world play?
How did God create and destroy this world, and how did he ultimately love it?
If I knew that, I felt like I could make this imperfect world into a perfect world.
And now I think I understand a little bit.
The answer was to just leave it alone, that was all.
Taking a step back and looking at what's happening in the world with a joyful heart.
Just watching with loving eyes until the end those who strive to become perfect in imperfection.
I don't know what I've become now, but I can move and think, so I must at least be on the ground, and if so, isn't this truly terrifying?
This boring and meaningless life doesn't end with death, and I have to exist as something again.
--- p.68
What about you?
Kangsan, you are sitting there with an expression on your face that says you don't care if you die right now.
Do you sometimes regret it too?
Do you think about those you sent away back then, the mistakes you made that could have been undone?
Well, I don't know if I can say this, but there's still a chance.
You are a better person than me.
In many ways.
So please, wake up.
--- pp.97~98
It was of little comfort to me that Hyesu considered all humans except me harmful.
Because that's not what I wanted to be.
I walked quickly towards Hyesu, who was already far away.
Even with this body, my heart still aches, and I realize anew that I can feel the pain of the heart.
--- p.145
I said this.
Love is wanting to be with you every day, wanting to know everything, and thinking about you constantly.
Of course, they were right in some ways, but they were just a tiny star in the vast universe of love.
Just as the absence of a single star does not make the universe any less of a universe, so it is with love.
The moment you define love, it becomes small and flat in an instant.
The job of someone who loves someone is not to confirm their love.
Just enjoying today, which was created by tens of millions of strokes of luck, and sharing many stories.
--- p.205
What kind of mindset did the developers of the world have when they created this?
Why was it created and how was it operated?
What role do each member of the world play?
How did God create and destroy this world, and how did he ultimately love it?
If I knew that, I felt like I could make this imperfect world into a perfect world.
And now I think I understand a little bit.
The answer was to just leave it alone, that was all.
Taking a step back and looking at what's happening in the world with a joyful heart.
Just watching with loving eyes until the end those who strive to become perfect in imperfection.
--- pp.291~292
Publisher's Review
Moments of disappearance left behind by a vanishing being
What I liked most about this novel was that it spoke of death and life without hastily comforting or patting people on the back.
This only shows tens of thousands of pieces of light crashing onto the rippling waves.
Our lives are like these things that shine for a moment and then disappear.
Nothing lasts forever.
_ Kim Cho-yeop (novelist)
The theme that runs through Lee Yuri's first novel, "Meet Me in a Good Place," is death.
The works collected here allow us to look at death, which comes suddenly one day, not from the perspective of the one left behind, but solely from the perspective of the dead.
In "Duck Boat," Shin Ji-young suddenly dies in a sudden accident on a rainy road while taking a taxi to her father's columbarium. She then stays at the duck boat dock on the Han River, where her family always visits with various excuses, waiting for her mother and younger sibling to return.
After his father's death, he waits for several seasons, unable to leave, even though he knows that "for the living, death is something that happens to others and is not entirely his own, and that as time passes, he will eventually be able to let it go."
Haenam, a taxi driver in "Midnight Run," turns his back on his family and lives a lonely life until one day he suddenly dies in an accident.
Even if you don't know what you've become, you're left with despair at the thought of having to continue living boring and meaningless days, knowing something even after death.
In "The End of the World," Hye-su and Ji-woo become each other's refuge from the harmful world.
Hyesu wants to go to a more harmless place with Jiwoo, but Jiwoo is heartbroken because he cannot fully embrace Hyesu's sadness, even after becoming a soul.
"Nine Lives" shows the past lives of a cat who can live up to nine lives and the process of finding true love through these lives.
"The Girl of Eternity" depicts the desperate struggle of Soo-jung, who is left behind after her lover Jeong-min, who promised to prove "eternity," leaves to prove that "eternity does not exist."
In "Developer of This World," game developer Ye-eun, who died from overwork and came back to life as a ghost, seeks to find the answer to the question, "Why did it turn out like this?" from the perspective of a developer, that is, the perspective of the creator.
Over the course of six works, the author intertwines the pitiful lives of various characters, scattering the despair and death that one encounters in a daze. In the final work, he questions the existence of God, the developer of this world.
'Who's intention was this?'
As novelist Kim Cho-yeop, who wrote the recommendation, said, this novel does not offer hasty consolation, but rather shows a life and slowly depicts the process of finally obtaining the one thing one desires, a small piece of gold that shines like a fly, and then leaving.
“Our lives are like things that flash for a moment and then disappear.” The disappearing entity proves the existence of disappearance.
For a colorful, complex, and beautiful one-time life.
The job of someone who loves someone is not to confirm their love.
Just enjoying today, which was created by tens of millions of strokes of luck, and sharing many stories.
_〈Nine Lives〉
The author confesses his love for this world by depicting the story of souls who cannot leave the boundary between life and death that arises from the death of one person.
“What will people become and where will they go when they die?
[… … ] The world is so colorful, complex, and beautiful that it would be a shame to just stay there for a moment and leave.
Such questions led to love for this world and the people who make up that world.” With the joy and fulfillment shared with loved ones, “I sprinkled the golden grains of sand I had gained from my life into my work, and it was so much fun that I thought this might be the greatest luxury and pleasure a novelist can enjoy” (Author’s Note), and through these words, we realize anew why Lee Yu-ri’s novels, these novels that talk about death, are so beautiful.
In this vast and wide world, the world repeats itself infinitely, and we overlap only for a very brief moment before parting ways again.
It is difficult to find what you want in such a life, and the world of spirits unfolds, where people cannot leave even after death due to bugs left behind by the creators who planned this world.
But these people “strangely enough, they leave only after they have done it in some way.”
Through this novel, we are left to “watch with affectionate eyes until the end those who strive to become perfect in imperfection.”
This is why "See You in a Good Place" is essential for a colorful, complex, and beautiful one-time life.
What I liked most about this novel was that it spoke of death and life without hastily comforting or patting people on the back.
This only shows tens of thousands of pieces of light crashing onto the rippling waves.
Our lives are like these things that shine for a moment and then disappear.
Nothing lasts forever.
_ Kim Cho-yeop (novelist)
The theme that runs through Lee Yuri's first novel, "Meet Me in a Good Place," is death.
The works collected here allow us to look at death, which comes suddenly one day, not from the perspective of the one left behind, but solely from the perspective of the dead.
In "Duck Boat," Shin Ji-young suddenly dies in a sudden accident on a rainy road while taking a taxi to her father's columbarium. She then stays at the duck boat dock on the Han River, where her family always visits with various excuses, waiting for her mother and younger sibling to return.
After his father's death, he waits for several seasons, unable to leave, even though he knows that "for the living, death is something that happens to others and is not entirely his own, and that as time passes, he will eventually be able to let it go."
Haenam, a taxi driver in "Midnight Run," turns his back on his family and lives a lonely life until one day he suddenly dies in an accident.
Even if you don't know what you've become, you're left with despair at the thought of having to continue living boring and meaningless days, knowing something even after death.
In "The End of the World," Hye-su and Ji-woo become each other's refuge from the harmful world.
Hyesu wants to go to a more harmless place with Jiwoo, but Jiwoo is heartbroken because he cannot fully embrace Hyesu's sadness, even after becoming a soul.
"Nine Lives" shows the past lives of a cat who can live up to nine lives and the process of finding true love through these lives.
"The Girl of Eternity" depicts the desperate struggle of Soo-jung, who is left behind after her lover Jeong-min, who promised to prove "eternity," leaves to prove that "eternity does not exist."
In "Developer of This World," game developer Ye-eun, who died from overwork and came back to life as a ghost, seeks to find the answer to the question, "Why did it turn out like this?" from the perspective of a developer, that is, the perspective of the creator.
Over the course of six works, the author intertwines the pitiful lives of various characters, scattering the despair and death that one encounters in a daze. In the final work, he questions the existence of God, the developer of this world.
'Who's intention was this?'
As novelist Kim Cho-yeop, who wrote the recommendation, said, this novel does not offer hasty consolation, but rather shows a life and slowly depicts the process of finally obtaining the one thing one desires, a small piece of gold that shines like a fly, and then leaving.
“Our lives are like things that flash for a moment and then disappear.” The disappearing entity proves the existence of disappearance.
For a colorful, complex, and beautiful one-time life.
The job of someone who loves someone is not to confirm their love.
Just enjoying today, which was created by tens of millions of strokes of luck, and sharing many stories.
_〈Nine Lives〉
The author confesses his love for this world by depicting the story of souls who cannot leave the boundary between life and death that arises from the death of one person.
“What will people become and where will they go when they die?
[… … ] The world is so colorful, complex, and beautiful that it would be a shame to just stay there for a moment and leave.
Such questions led to love for this world and the people who make up that world.” With the joy and fulfillment shared with loved ones, “I sprinkled the golden grains of sand I had gained from my life into my work, and it was so much fun that I thought this might be the greatest luxury and pleasure a novelist can enjoy” (Author’s Note), and through these words, we realize anew why Lee Yu-ri’s novels, these novels that talk about death, are so beautiful.
In this vast and wide world, the world repeats itself infinitely, and we overlap only for a very brief moment before parting ways again.
It is difficult to find what you want in such a life, and the world of spirits unfolds, where people cannot leave even after death due to bugs left behind by the creators who planned this world.
But these people “strangely enough, they leave only after they have done it in some way.”
Through this novel, we are left to “watch with affectionate eyes until the end those who strive to become perfect in imperfection.”
This is why "See You in a Good Place" is essential for a colorful, complex, and beautiful one-time life.
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: July 12, 2023
- Page count, weight, size: 296 pages | 316g | 128*188*20mm
- ISBN13: 9791192638171
- ISBN10: 1192638174
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