{"id":10817,"date":"2021-10-02T19:36:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T19:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=10817"},"modified":"2025-11-24T16:16:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T16:16:37","slug":"review-to-the-warm-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=10817","title":{"rendered":"Review: To the Warm Horizon by Choi Jin-young"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:15% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"326\" height=\"499\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/choi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10400 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:18px\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>I reviewed the haunting novel <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.worldliteraturetoday.org\/2021\/autumn\/warm-horizon-choi-jin-young\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>To the Warm Horizon<\/em><\/span><\/a> for <em>World Literature Today. <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:18px\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Here&#8217;s an excerpt from the review:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:18px\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">This pandemic year has felt like a dystopia to many of us\u2014we were told to stay away from family and friends, urged to remain inside our homes, encouraged to stock up on food. Yet, as businesses and schools start opening back up, we continue to be vigilant, never knowing if what happened in March 2020 could happen again. Still, humanity is picking itself up again and looking toward the future, like we always do. Thus I could say that reading <em>To the Warm Horizon\u2014<\/em>a postapocalyptic tale about a deadly virus and its violent aftermath\u2014might make one feel better about the year we\u2019ve just endured, since (thankfully) nothing like what Choi Jin-young describes has happened. On the other hand, reading about a group of Koreans moving across Russia, stealing whatever food they can, and fighting off similarly desperate wanderers with knives and guns might bring back our worst fears from 2020. Let me add one disturbing fact: this novel was first published in Korean in 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:18px\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Read the entire review <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.worldliteraturetoday.org\/2021\/autumn\/warm-horizon-choi-jin-young\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[1227,1195,52,168,1228],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10817"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15785,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10817\/revisions\/15785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}