*The Roaring Life* Author: Kim Ae-ran Publisher: People's Literature Publishing House

"South Korean Post-80s Genius Female Writer" Kim Ae-ran

Winner of the 27th Shin Dong-yup Literary Award

Zhang Yiwei, winner of the Future Literary Artist Award, wrote the preface "I Want to Catch That Light"

"Readers who like Kim Ae-ran will easily catch the sharp, cold female gaze behind the ever-changing literary creations... Reality is as stark as snow; the writer classifies these experiences as the original appearance of life, which is warm, yet cold. At the same time, it also has a glow."

“The Life of the Overflow” is Kim Ae-ran’s second collection of short stories, comprising eight works. These stories portray a girl who grew up in a dumpling restaurant playing the piano freely in a semi-basement rental unit in Seoul with rainwater pouring in, the extremely exhausting and laborious careers of urban women, urban youths who are unable to celebrate Christmas with dignity due to lack of material possessions, and a mother whose husband cheated and incurred debt, raising her daughter by running a noodle shop... They focus on the respectable ordinary people in the city who seem unremarkable and marginalized but are actually silently fighting against life every day; these imaginative and wise words are like a pool of water accumulated in mundane daily life, in which readers see themselves reflected and recognize the inner twists and turns under the heavy pressure of life.