A Thousand Blues

By Cheon Seon-ran

2020

First Published

4.07

Average Rating

320

Number of Pages

9H43M

Audio Length

Discover the Korean runaway prizewinning bestseller for fans of LONELY CASTLE IN THE MIRROR and KLARA AND THE SUN 'A stunning story of love, care and sacrifice' BORA CHUNG, author of CURSED BUNNY _____________ Let's all learn how to slow down ... 2035: In the shadow of a race course, a young woman finds a robot on a scrap heap, contemplating the sky. Intrigued, she takes him under her care. Together, they decide to rescue the race horse named Today who is heading for the knackers' yard after a lifetime of overwork. To make Today happy again, they hatch a special plan to let her run another race. But it will be no ordinary event- they will train her to run the slowest time of her life. In the heat of the race, Coli feels Today running too fast. She is in pain and will soon injure herself. To save his beloved horse, Coli will commit one final act of bravery ... Radiant, urgent, deeply moving, A Thousand Blues is a hymn to our earth and to our humanity, giving powerful voice to those left behind in a fast forward-moving world of toxic productivity and competition. Brimming with heart and hope and rage, it shows with vivid empathy and warmth how friendship, community and sacrifice will set us free. __________ 'A stunningly crafted novel, evoking a myriad emotions' Kim Bo-young ‘A dazzling, warm novel that shows us how to move forward as a society without leaving anyone or anything behind' Choi Jin-young, author of To the Warm Horizon ‘A breath of fresh air in the sci-fi genre’ ***** ‘Feels like a feather softly descending and tickling my heart' ***** ‘A sci-fi novel full of human warmth' *****

Avg Rating

4.07

Number of Ratings

889

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Author

Cheon Seon-ran

Author · 4 books

Born in 1993, Cheon Seon-ran is a beloved author by the ‘MZ Generation’ (Millennials and Gen Z) of South Korea. A graduate from the department of creative writing in Anyang Arts High School, she holds a master’s degree in creative writing from Dankook University. She dreams of living in a world where humans become the minority in a world of flora and fauna. She is always thinking what the end of the world will look like, and what is happening elsewhere in the universe. One day, she decides to pen her thoughts down in this novel. A Thousand Blues won the 4th Korea Sci-fi Literature Award. She is the author of several novels and short-story collections.