A Thousand Blues

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 '' *

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Cheon Seon-ran (Author)
Born in 1993, Cheon Seon-ran is a graduate of Dankook University and Anyang Arts school. She often dreams of a world where humans become a minority in a world of flora and fauna, and what the end of the world might look like. She penned her thoughts down in this novel which won the 4th Korea Sci-fi Literature Award. A THOUSAND BLUES has been adapted as a stage musical in Korea and will be published around the world.

Chi-Young Kim (Translator)
Chi-Young Kim is the translator of the New York Times bestselling Korean novel Please Look After Mom and the Korean contemporary classic The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly. She lives in Los Angeles.

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Discover the original and uplifting Korean prize-winner for fans of CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN, KLARA AND THE SUN and I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN
'A stunning story of love, care and sacrifice' Bora Chung, author of Cursed Bunny
'Feels like a feather softly descending and tickling my heart' Reader review *
'A breath of fresh air' Reader review *
'Full of human warmth' *
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IT TAKES A MACHINE WITH HEART TO SAVE A LIFE
From its perch on top of a pile of junk inside a shed, Coli, a robot with powerful observational qualities, waits patiently for someone to find it.

Coli is special among AI robots. This is because Coli has the capacity for emotion.

Today, Coli is feeling particularly in awe - of the sky in all its wondrous shades of blue.

Luckily for Coli, a young girl is about to pass by. She is obsessed with robots.

Together, they will save a life.

But first, they must make friends, play with danger, and pull off the mother of all deceptions.
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'Engaging, touching, subtly disturbing' K-Lit Review

'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