A Love Story from the End of the World

來自《小土地的野獸》（Beasts of a Little Land）廣受讚譽的作者、以及 Reese’s Book Club 選書《夜鳥之城》（City of Night Birds）之後，這是一部精緻動人的短篇小說集，描寫人類在自然世界中岌岌可危的平衡狀態。

「罕見的珍寶……此刻不可或缺的閱讀之作。」——可可・梅勒斯（Coco Mellors）
「金的作品充滿雄心、優雅且極具思想深度。」——潘朵拉・賽克斯（Pandora Sykes）
「在這部作品集中，愛成為理解『什麼值得被拯救』的框架——自然世界、人與人之間的連結，以及將兩者緊密相繫、脆弱卻堅韌的細線。最終呈現的並非悲觀的末日想像，而是在同理與溫柔似乎逐漸流失的時代，對這些情感的深刻凝視。」——AnOther Magazine

「精準捕捉當下生態危機的時代氛圍。」——Country and Town House

活在這顆奇蹟般的星球上，究竟意味著什麼？

這十篇故事鮮明、生動、令人心碎又深具感染力，映照出在「人為末日」逼近之際，每一個個體所做出的選擇：在被半透明生態穹頂包覆的近未來首爾，一名負責維護結構的土木工程師，思索著一樁包辦婚姻；一位美國畫家前往法國南部，並被一名自稱已解鎖人類意識的企業家所吸引；而在印度洋與太平洋交會之處，一座因他國垃圾而化為巨大掩埋場的島嶼上，一名男孩與 K-pop 超級巨星發生了一場改變命運的邂逅。

獻給喜愛理查・鮑爾斯（Richard Powers）、艾莉芙・夏法克（Elif Shafak）與芭芭拉・金索沃（Barbara Kingsolver）的讀者，裘海亞・金（Juhea Kim）的首部短篇小說集以令人屏息的高度凝視世界。《世界盡頭的愛情故事》（A Love Story from the End of the World）熱切提醒我們：人性——也是我們最大的希望——始終存在於自然之中。

From the acclaimed author of Beasts of a Little Land and Reese’s Book Club pick City of Night Birds, an exquisite story collection about humans in precarious balance with the natural world.

‘A rare jewel … essential reading for right now’ COCO MELLORS
‘Kim’s work is ambitious, elegant and deeply intellectual’ PANDORA SYKES
‘In this collection, love becomes a framework for understanding what is worth saving: the natural world, our capacity for human connection and the fragile but resilient threads that bind them. What emerges is not a pessimistic vision of apocalypse but a meditation on empathy and tenderness when such sentiments feel otherwise lost’ AnOther Magazine

'Encapsulates our very moment of ecological crisis' Country and Town House

What does it mean to live on our miraculous planet?

Vivid, transportive, and heartfelt, each of these ten stories is a reflection of individual choice in the face of manmade apocalypse: in a near-future Seoul encased by a translucent biodome, a civil engineer charged with its upkeep contemplates an arranged marriage. An American painter travels to the South of France and is seduced by an entrepreneur who claims to have unlocked human consciousness. And where the Indian and Pacific Oceans meet, on an island that has turned into a gargantuan landfill from other countries’ waste, a boy has a fateful brush with K-pop superstars.

For readers of Richard Powers, Elif Shafak and Barbara Kingsolver, Juhea Kim’s first story collection views our world from breathtaking heights. A Love Story from the End of the World is an impassioned reminder that our humanity – and our best hope – will always be found in nature.