Love, Cocktails and Resident Evil

【Editor's Recommendation】
🍷 For revenge, you have to read Korean writers! Other people's dads are in a midlife crisis, my dad is in a biochemical crisis, and zombies are attacking East Asia's "happy home"!
——A pure Korean revenge story that will not disappoint you even if you turn down the volume of "Xiba" and "shake it".
A fish bone stuck in the throat for seventeen years, a cocktail brewed from a vat of giant snakes, a Green Lake Resort nearing completion, and a fruit knife inhabited by a mysterious demon, lead to four revenge stories: violence disguised as everyday life, manipulation in the name of love.
Unlike school, where you can choose friends with compatible personalities and then mingle, or work-focused companies, family requires you to persevere through randomly assigned relationships. Over time, this inevitably wears on you. The dark and vexing emotions of women, children, financial hardship, and frustrated family relationships are meticulously portrayed. Each of the four stories in this book upholds a clear message: those relationships have tangible substance, bring us concrete pain, and should not be treated indifferently.
🍷The sense of doom that is infinitely close to everyday life, the dream composed of black bullets and sharp blades, and the happy ending after screams and blood spilling, are the charm of "Pulp Fiction".
——B-level elements pay tribute to Quentin, the fantastic collision of zombie worldview and urban legend brings a sensory feast beyond common sense!
The mysterious demon who controls the reversal of time, the new zombies created by the ancient god virus, the innocent wandering souls in the forest, the fierce ghosts in the water, and "Tomie" who was born and revived with the evil girl are more beautiful than the monsters in the "Resident Evil" series, "Train to Busan" and "100 Zombies".
The author mixes his inner thoughts with strange stories and miscellaneous tales to create his work. The heat can be felt through the guns and knives, blood and screams... The more you repeatedly chew on the cruel scenes, the more strange intimacy you can feel.
“Zombies are not the central theme of Love, Cocktails & Resident Evil. I hope that through zombies that transcend common sense, I can inspire readers to appreciate their daily lives.”
🍷Zhao Ye-eun, a representative writer born in the 1990s and a "gem of Korean literature", has a debut collection of works that continues to top the sales charts and remains popular even after its publication!
——For three consecutive years, he has been shortlisted for the readers' direct selection of "Young Writers Who Will Determine the Future of Korean Literature" by Korea's mainstream online bookstore yes24!
The core of Zhao Yien's creation is her ease in using various B-grade horror elements, her original observational perspective on "East Asian families", and her experience of working with all kinds of sharp knives and sharp weapons while studying metalworking. It has also become the decisive weapon that conquered many mainstream Korean media such as the Chosun Ilbo and numerous readers.
🍷Authorized from Korea! Renowned designer Xihe brings creative transparent packaging to Goods displays, featuring die-cutting and perforation technology. Korean fans, come and enjoy!
——Come and pick the carefully packaged bags of love, zombies and cocktails, and share the sweet killing and sweet revenge!
The Y2K aesthetic is back! With its stylish heart-shaped packaging, a toy accessory version waiting to be opened, and the "love and cocktail" elements licensed from the original Korean cover, the inner cover, endpapers, and chapter pages are all ingeniously designed to create an entertaining, whimsical, and fantastical reading experience!
The cover paper has high-definition color rendering, and the text is made of imported smooth-grained book paper, which feels soft and brings an easy reading experience.
【Recommendation】
The hotter the weather, the more popular such stories become. —Chosun Ilbo
The novel's excellent sense of tension and freshness alone are enough reason to read it. — Korean media Art Insight
I particularly enjoy Quentin Tarantino's films. Countless images of bloodshed constantly fill my mind, and naturally, I wanted to write my own story. I signed up for a writing competition, and that's how my creative process began. — Author Zhao Yien. "The Invitation" offers us the opportunity to decisively break free from the invisible devices of violence in our lives. A representative example is the "gaslighting effect" manipulated by the male protagonist. He skillfully manipulates opinions, invisibly confining his girlfriend to his desired framework. But when the gaslight goes out, the violence is finally exposed. The faceless woman with a smile appears before the anguished girlfriend, a bloody invitation to resistance.
——Reading News
Only in the world of imagination can one finally stop enduring. No need to feign ignorance, no need to oppress or be oppressed in the name of family. Since a zombie bites you, you must destroy it; since the zombie virus remains in your body, you must survive, even at the cost of a terrible price. The violence displayed in these stories is, in fact, familiar to us all. After all, no matter how outrageous the imagination, someone has experienced it firsthand.
——Hankyoreh
While passionate about writing horror novels, Zhao Yien doesn't want to inflict discomfort and pain through depictions of cruelty. Overall, the cruelty serves more of a narrative purpose. "Love, Chicken, Wine, and Resident Evil" doesn't simply depict fear or pain, but instead focuses on loneliness. The protagonists' hearts are filled with emptiness and loneliness. Zhao Yien diligently fills these gaps through the story's phantoms, like a puzzle, so that people ultimately become each other's support. Writer Zhao Yien prefers stories with happy endings.
——Exclusive interview with writer Zhao Yien from Korean media Newsis [Brief Introduction]
This book is the first collection of short and medium-length stories by Cho Ye-eun, a representative Korean writer of the post-90s generation. It includes four urban, eccentric revenge tales: "Invitation," "Love, Cocktails, and the Walking Dead," "Love in the Wetlands," and "Knife, Overlapping Knife." A mysterious demon who rewinds time, a new type of zombie created by an ancient virus, an innocent forest spirit, a fierce aquatic ghost, and "Tomie," resurrected with the birth of a villainous woman, all appear in apocalyptic cities and modern mountains, waging a vengeance against oppression disguised as love, violence disguised as everyday life, and the transformation of family and intimate relationships in a heartwarming, aesthetically pleasing story.

2023-09-01

广西师范大学出版社

wild spring

192

9787559862365