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Young-ha Kim (c. November 11, 1968) is a modern South Korean writer. [1] Life. Kim was born in Hwacheon on November 11, 1968. He moved from place to place as a child, since his father was in the military. As a child, he suffered from gas poisoning from coal gas and lost memory before ten. [2] .
The philosophy—life is worthless and small—reminds us of Camus and Sartre, risky territory for a young writer. . . . But Kim has the advantage of the urban South Korean landscape. Fast cars, sex with lollipops and weather fronts from Siberia lend a unique flavor to good old-fashioned nihilism.
Kim Young-ha is the author of seven novels, including the acclaimed I Have the Right to Destroy Myself and Black Flower - and five short story collections. He has won every major Korean literature award, and his works have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He lives in Seoul, South Korea.
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KIM Young-ha's official website. Diary of A Murderer. Tags. English. cover. Diary of a Murderer captivates and provokes in equal measure, exploring what it means to be on the edge—between life and death, good and evil.
Kim Young-ha is a representative of Korea's new generation of writers. His latest novel to be translated into English, Your Republic Is Calling You, will be published by Harcourt/Houghton Mifflin this fall.
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Jan 1, 2003 · Kim (Young-Ha?) makes threads of certain passengers' stories in varying degrees of detail. There's a young aristocratic women whose scent of deer roe blood drives the male passengers to distraction, the solitary teenage boy who falls in love with her, a common thief, a disgraced Catholic priest, the last eunuch to serve a Korean imperial court ...
