Love at the end of time – Kim Chuhe – Eksmo – 2026 – ISBN 978-5-04-243207-1
Love at the end of time
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Love at the end of time
14.99 €
Chuhe Kim, a writer, environmentalist, and Yasnaya Polyana Prize winner, invites us to reflect on an eternal theme.
What is love? Love has many faces and sometimes takes on the most intricate forms. All-consuming self-love, which cannot resist the temptation of eternal life. Love for God and a friend. Love for art. Parental and sisterly love. Love for one's neighbor and celebrity idols. Love not for a person, but for another being with whom you establish a connection. Love for our planet, which we risk losing if we continue to recklessly exploit it. In her collection of stories, Chuhe doesn't frighten us, but warns us: if we don't change our attitude toward the environment, we may lose not only love but also more familiar joys, like a fresh breeze and clean snow.
Ten stories: we find ourselves under the cover of a biodome, aboard an ark in the haze of Gibraltar, in the African savannah, on an island of garbage, and in other corners of the planet. Like albatrosses, we soar above the sunny expanse of the sea, a bare desert with acid rain, an airy meringue of mountain fog, a rat-infested subway, silvery salmon carcasses in the black waters of rivers—above a space where reality is mixed with fiction. Humanity, an awareness of the importance of actions and deeds towards all living things—this is the note that continues to sound in the head after you close the book. — Ekaterina Pokholkova, Dean of the Translation Faculty of Moscow State Linguistic University, translator, Korean scholar
What is love? Love has many faces and sometimes takes on the most intricate forms. All-consuming self-love, which cannot resist the temptation of eternal life. Love for God and a friend. Love for art. Parental and sisterly love. Love for one's neighbor and celebrity idols. Love not for a person, but for another being with whom you establish a connection. Love for our planet, which we risk losing if we continue to recklessly exploit it. In her collection of stories, Chuhe doesn't frighten us, but warns us: if we don't change our attitude toward the environment, we may lose not only love but also more familiar joys, like a fresh breeze and clean snow.
Ten stories: we find ourselves under the cover of a biodome, aboard an ark in the haze of Gibraltar, in the African savannah, on an island of garbage, and in other corners of the planet. Like albatrosses, we soar above the sunny expanse of the sea, a bare desert with acid rain, an airy meringue of mountain fog, a rat-infested subway, silvery salmon carcasses in the black waters of rivers—above a space where reality is mixed with fiction. Humanity, an awareness of the importance of actions and deeds towards all living things—this is the note that continues to sound in the head after you close the book. — Ekaterina Pokholkova, Dean of the Translation Faculty of Moscow State Linguistic University, translator, Korean scholar