"How is your summer (2022 edition)" Author: [Korea] Jin Ailan Publisher: People's Literature Publishing House

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Kim Aeran, "Korean's post-80s genius female writer"

The 18th Han Wushu Literature Award Winners

Preface to "Catching Tropical Fish at the End of the Cliff" by Wen Zhen, winner of the Lao She Literature Award

"Go read these eight stories that are as cruel and luminous as tropical fish. Go experience Kim Ae-ran's beautiful and dangerous summer for yourself. - Read it as many times as you can if you can."

"How is your summer?" is Kim Aeran's third collection of short stories, which includes eight works. Most of the characters in the book are facing desperate situations, nakedly exposed to reality, but trying to find a slim hope. It is particularly worth mentioning that five of the works focus on young women around 30 years old, delicately depicting their psychological states in love, friendship, marriage, work, etc., which may resonate with Chinese female readers. As the most representative female writer in Korean literature, Kim Aeran has won the love of a large number of readers, largely due to the power of the protagonists in her works.