Cocktails, Love, Zombies
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Book Introduction
This is the second book in the Safe House Short Series, a collection of short stories by author Jo Ye-eun.
The author, who presented a solidly structured horror thriller in the first book of the Safe House Original Series, 『New Seoul Park Jelly Vendor Massacre』, shines with even more diverse colors in this short story collection. It includes four works: "Invitation," which depicts the birth of a female villain who has endured subtle but clear violence; "Love in the Swamp," which depicts the lovely attraction between a water ghost and a forest ghost; "Cocktail, Love, Zombie," an occult zombie story that looks into the dark side of patriarchy through black humor; and "Overlap Knife, Knife," which won the Excellence Award at the 2nd Golden Bough Time Leap Contest. |
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index
invite
Love of the Wetlands
Cocktails, Love, Zombies
Overlap knife, knife
Review of the work
Producer's Note
Love of the Wetlands
Cocktails, Love, Zombies
Overlap knife, knife
Review of the work
Producer's Note
Into the book
There's been a thorn in my neck for 17 years.
---From the "first sentence"
At some point, I started watching his expression.
He dressed to suit his taste and changed his hair.
Everything in my life was geared towards Jeong-Hyeon.
… Back then, I was always suffering from a foreign body sensation in my throat.
It wasn't that bothersome, and I forgot about it and only felt a stinging sensation once or twice when I swallowed.
It's so trivial that I'm embarrassed to even tell anyone, but it definitely gets on my nerves.
Something that doesn't exist, but I feel it.
I didn't know how to deal with that.
--- pp.16-17
For some reason, I became afraid of water.
It had been so long since I had seen someone look at me like that.
Maybe it's the first time since becoming a ghost.
It was truly the first time I had seen someone look at me without fear, anger, or cursing.
I was not immune to that kind of gaze.
I wish someone would just run away quickly.
So, like I did to everyone else, I waved my pale, skinny wrist.
“Run away, run away.”
No one in the forest ran away.
No matter how much I waved my arms, it stayed in the same place.
The water felt like crying.
--- p.49
“I’m sorry, Dad.
But there's nothing I can do.
You can't kill someone to feed them, Dad.
Even if you're hungry, try to endure it.
“I’m sure there will be a way.”
That was what was said, but there was no sign of a solution.
In the first place, there could be no vaccine that could save a person whose heart had already stopped.
It's been a while since 'Zombie Report 999' has been floating around in my head.
--- p.83
Even if it wasn't for an apology, my father would have stabbed my mother someday with some excuse.
I too would have killed my father someday, even if it wasn't today.
It wasn't a matter of motivation or timing.
This was something that was bound to happen someday.
It's just that that day was today.
As I chewed and swallowed the chewy octopus sushi, all my regrets disappeared.
And then, feeling relieved, I took the knife and stabbed myself in the neck.
---From the "first sentence"
At some point, I started watching his expression.
He dressed to suit his taste and changed his hair.
Everything in my life was geared towards Jeong-Hyeon.
… Back then, I was always suffering from a foreign body sensation in my throat.
It wasn't that bothersome, and I forgot about it and only felt a stinging sensation once or twice when I swallowed.
It's so trivial that I'm embarrassed to even tell anyone, but it definitely gets on my nerves.
Something that doesn't exist, but I feel it.
I didn't know how to deal with that.
--- pp.16-17
For some reason, I became afraid of water.
It had been so long since I had seen someone look at me like that.
Maybe it's the first time since becoming a ghost.
It was truly the first time I had seen someone look at me without fear, anger, or cursing.
I was not immune to that kind of gaze.
I wish someone would just run away quickly.
So, like I did to everyone else, I waved my pale, skinny wrist.
“Run away, run away.”
No one in the forest ran away.
No matter how much I waved my arms, it stayed in the same place.
The water felt like crying.
--- p.49
“I’m sorry, Dad.
But there's nothing I can do.
You can't kill someone to feed them, Dad.
Even if you're hungry, try to endure it.
“I’m sure there will be a way.”
That was what was said, but there was no sign of a solution.
In the first place, there could be no vaccine that could save a person whose heart had already stopped.
It's been a while since 'Zombie Report 999' has been floating around in my head.
--- p.83
Even if it wasn't for an apology, my father would have stabbed my mother someday with some excuse.
I too would have killed my father someday, even if it wasn't today.
It wasn't a matter of motivation or timing.
This was something that was bound to happen someday.
It's just that that day was today.
As I chewed and swallowed the chewy octopus sushi, all my regrets disappeared.
And then, feeling relieved, I took the knife and stabbed myself in the neck.
--- p.114
Publisher's Review
Such a vivid darkness
Some emotions are often ignored.
It's the dark and damp feeling that comes from being a woman, having a child, not being wealthy, and not being able to get along with others.
If you complain about your suffering, you will be judged as being too sensitive.
They say that kind of problem is not a big deal.
In all her works in “Cocktail, Love, Zombie,” author Cho Ye-eun vividly portrays neglected emotions and rebels.
Such emotions have a clear reality and cause specific pain to their owners.
The words I couldn't immediately say to my boyfriend, who easily judges me by saying things like, "I have a long waist," "I have a narrow forehead," or "The clothes I wore last time didn't look good," become thorns and stab my throat ("Invitation").
A wife who has devoted decades of her life to supporting her husband cries as she sees him turned into a zombie, saying that she is scared of “living without that worthless human being” (Cocktail, Love, Zombie).
Sedimentary suffering becomes the seed of tragedy.
When a father who has been abusive to his family stabs his mother with a knife, the child who witnesses it immediately stabs his father with the same knife ("Overlap Knife, Knife").
The darkness that cannot be completely resolved while alive will not disappear even after death.
Thus, the soul that left this world alone remains there in the form of a ghost, continuing its unwelcome existence (“Love in the Wetland”).
The warmth of cruelty
The characters of author Jo Ye-eun, who have not received enough comfort from their long suffering, at some point take up weapons.
To escape from the person who had trapped him and the world that created him.
Those who want a definite breakup easily transcend the moral code of the world.
The genre grammar of thriller and horror chosen by the author fits the story perfectly at this point.
The more I think about the cruel scene, the more strangely I feel affection.
When a friend hurls abusive language at those who have harassed me, I am more struck by the kindness of my friend than by the harshness of his words.
Beyond the guns, knives, blood, and screams in "Cocktail, Love, Zombies," there is warmth.
No one's suffering is deserved.
It's okay for us to be more angry.
Even if you get blood on your hands, I won't blame you.
All we can do is hold hands, dyed red, and move forward.
It is a very genre-novel-like method of empathy that is possible only because it is a genre novel.
Some emotions are often ignored.
It's the dark and damp feeling that comes from being a woman, having a child, not being wealthy, and not being able to get along with others.
If you complain about your suffering, you will be judged as being too sensitive.
They say that kind of problem is not a big deal.
In all her works in “Cocktail, Love, Zombie,” author Cho Ye-eun vividly portrays neglected emotions and rebels.
Such emotions have a clear reality and cause specific pain to their owners.
The words I couldn't immediately say to my boyfriend, who easily judges me by saying things like, "I have a long waist," "I have a narrow forehead," or "The clothes I wore last time didn't look good," become thorns and stab my throat ("Invitation").
A wife who has devoted decades of her life to supporting her husband cries as she sees him turned into a zombie, saying that she is scared of “living without that worthless human being” (Cocktail, Love, Zombie).
Sedimentary suffering becomes the seed of tragedy.
When a father who has been abusive to his family stabs his mother with a knife, the child who witnesses it immediately stabs his father with the same knife ("Overlap Knife, Knife").
The darkness that cannot be completely resolved while alive will not disappear even after death.
Thus, the soul that left this world alone remains there in the form of a ghost, continuing its unwelcome existence (“Love in the Wetland”).
The warmth of cruelty
The characters of author Jo Ye-eun, who have not received enough comfort from their long suffering, at some point take up weapons.
To escape from the person who had trapped him and the world that created him.
Those who want a definite breakup easily transcend the moral code of the world.
The genre grammar of thriller and horror chosen by the author fits the story perfectly at this point.
The more I think about the cruel scene, the more strangely I feel affection.
When a friend hurls abusive language at those who have harassed me, I am more struck by the kindness of my friend than by the harshness of his words.
Beyond the guns, knives, blood, and screams in "Cocktail, Love, Zombies," there is warmth.
No one's suffering is deserved.
It's okay for us to be more angry.
Even if you get blood on your hands, I won't blame you.
All we can do is hold hands, dyed red, and move forward.
It is a very genre-novel-like method of empathy that is possible only because it is a genre novel.
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Publication date: April 13, 2020
- Page count, weight, size: 165 pages | 152g | 100*182*20mm
- ISBN13: 9791190174756
- ISBN10: 1190174758
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