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Kang Young-Sook
🇰🇷South Korea
Kang Young-Sook's At Night He Lifts Weights is a collection of stories that pulse with the restless energy of contemporary Seoul. Her characters — isolated, yearning, often physically constrained — seek release through strange and sometimes violent means. The title story's image of nocturnal weightlifting becomes a metaphor for the invisible burdens her characters carry, the private rituals by which they maintain their grip on sanity. Kang writes with a compressed intensity that recalls the best of short fiction's ability to capture entire lives in a handful of pages.
