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Waiting for High Tide

Waiting for High Tide scrap

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  • ISBN

    9791168127128

  • Author

    Cho Yeeun조예은

  • Publisher

    Wisdom House, Inc.(주) 위즈덤하우스

  • Year Published

    2023

  • Category

    Crime & Mystery 범죄 및 미스터리

  • Target User

    Adult 성인

  • Period

    Contemporary 현대

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Description 작품 소개

“Because there’s someone I really want to see again. Whatever it takes.”

A longing intense and sharp— a yearning that crosses into the world of superstition and prayer. 


From "Cocktail, Love, Zombie" to "Tropical Night," author Cho Yae-eun, who oft invites her readers into her world of eerie and airy horror thrillers served with a dollop of happy endings, has once again spun magic with "Waiting for High Tide" as part of the Wisdom House's short story series, WEFIC.

The novel begins as the protagonist, Jeonghae, receives news that his childhood friend Wooyoung has died, having thrown herself into the sea at high tide. Jeonghae sets out to find Wooyoung's hometown, Mia Island, after not having visited for twenty years. In the middle of the island stood the solitary mountain Yeongsan. It is here that he finds out about an ancient legend that promises a reunion with the dead if their belongings or bones are buried (page 17). Wooyoung was the daughter of a family of mountain keepers who had managed Yeongsan for generations and had always wanted to be buried in the mountains. Jeonghae simply couldn't believe that Wooyoung had thrown herself into the sea.On the other hand, bolstered by the legend of Yeongsan, a pseudo-religious sect known as "Yeongsangyo" had grown in prominence, ensnaring unsuspecting people into Mia Island through televised media attention. For a long time, the youngest daughter of the Choi family, long touted as the ‘owners’ of Yeongsan, nurtured Yeongsangyo through so-called offerings, under the guise of prayers and devotion. Jeonghae plunges headlong into Yeongsangyo in pursuit of Wooyoung, who had been a devoted follower of the sect. He relies on a faith that he once ridiculed as superstition, all to "somehow meet Wooyeong again" (page 20). Just as mudflats are revealed at low tide, the truth of Yeongsangyo and Wooyoung, hidden within the dark tides of the sea, gradually begins to resurface.

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Wisdom House, Inc.. "Waiting for High Tide", https://www.wisdomhouse.co.kr/book/introduction/field/239167. accessed 27 June 2023.

Author Bio 작가 소개

조예은

Cho Yeeun조예은

Cho Yeeun won the Excellence Prize at the 2nd Goldenbough Time Leap Fiction Contest with the short story “Overlapped Knife, Knife,” and the Grand Prize at the 4th Kyobo Story Contest with the novel Shift. She is the author of New Seoul Park Jelly Vendor Massacre, Cocktails, Love and Zombies, and Snowball Drive.

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