A Love Story from the End of the World

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

âA rare jewel ⦠essential reading for right nowâ COCO MELLORS

âKimâs work is ambitious, elegant and deeply intellectualâ PANDORA SYKES

'Resonantâ¦affectingâ¦lyricalâ¦Throughout the collection, fleeting connections offer glimmers of hopeâ¦Her fiction offers a powerful reminder of what we stand to lose; that we are part of nature; and âwe have within ourselves everything we need to save humanityâ Financial Times

'Finely wrought storiesâ¦examining human selfishness and finding gleaming moments of care and conviction, often prompted by an encounter with a nonhuman being. Humanness, Kim suggests, cannot be wrested from the natural world: when we lose the latter, we lose ourselves' The New Yorker

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 countriesâ waste, a boy has a fateful brush with K-pop superstars.

For readers of Richard Powers, Elif Shafak and Barbara Kingsolver, Juhea Kimâs 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 â" and our best hope â" will always be found in nature.