Run, Dad, Run by Kim Ae-ran, People's Literature Publishing House

"South Korea's post-80s genius female writer" Kim Ae-ran's first collection of short stories

Nine stories that surprised the literary world

Lai Yingyan, deputy editor-in-chief of "Shanghai Literature" magazine, wrote the preface "She Knows How to Describe Loneliness"

"The initial stage of writing always best reveals a novelist's primal power... In this first collection, Kim Ae-ran shows a unique talent for depicting loneliness, making it both close and distant."

"Run, Dad, Run" is Kim Ae-ran's first collection of short stories, containing nine works. These stories are about children abandoned by their fathers before they were born, female university students choosing which convenience store to frequent, office workers who always have a reason for insomnia, five unrelated women sharing a rented apartment, and a young man filling his Seoul rented room with notes made of novel sentences... Compared to Kim Ae-ran's later, more mature and broader-ranging works, these stories are lighter and more agile. The various "fathers" depicted in the book show an interest in the question "Who am I, where do I come from?", thus revealing the author's original literary motivation.