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Statement of Selection
Over the past five or six years, whenever I visited the homes of my book-loving friends, Kim Thúy's ru was always there on the shelf. It was the kind of book that caught the eye, a book you couldn't help but read, and one that compelled you to tell others about it once you finished. When I heard it had been adapted into a film, I knew I had to see it. The film proved to be just as intense and moving as I had hoped, and I am deeply grateful for this precious opportunity to experience it with you and share our thoughts.
 The film follows a family who, after the Vietnam War, arrived in Quebec, Canada as boat people to begin a new life, all seen through the eyes of a teenage girl named An Tịnh. We, who have never endured such things, may never fully grasp a heart that constantly retreats into traumatic memories even amidst a warm welcome. Yet, I believe there is profound meaning in receiving even the fleeting moments that grace the screen. This is also a film about what a person becomes after staring long and hard at the fragments of a painful story and eventually absorbing them into their soul. I am looking forward to the screening this May. I truly hope many of you will be there to join us. (CHUNG Serang)

 

 

 

Guest Programmer CHUNG Serang(Novelist)

 

She was born in Seoul in 1984. She began her literary career in 2010 with the publication of “Dream, Dream, Dream” in Fantastique. Her published works include the short story collections See You on the Rooftop and I'll Give You My Voice; the novels I Miss Your Snaggletooth, Hana from Earth, Close This Much, Jaein, Jaewook, Jaehoon, The School Nurse Files, Every Body Will Be Dancing, From Sisun, onward, Seol Ja-eun, Returns to Golden Castle, and Seol Ja-eun, Chasing the Flame; the flash fiction collection Ara's Novel; and the essay collection Nobody Loves Earth More Than an Earthling. She is the recipient of the Changbi Novel Award, the Hankook Ilbo Literary Award, and the Today's Young Artist Awards.

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