[Focus on Author] Kim Keum Hee, Grand Greenhouse Repair Report / Sunwoo Eunsil
The Quarterly Changbi 206, Winter 2024
Abstract
“Focus on Author” illuminates Kim Keum Hee, whose novel Grand Greenhouse Repair Report was recently published. Literary critic Sunwoo Eunsil dynamically examines the literary approach that transmits past and present stories to the next generations through the voices of an author and their works, while freely adopting the framework of a historical novel and the genealogy of women’s narrative. We can hear vividly, through the author’s voice, the narrative world of embracing “heart,” which the author builds, the process of “making history as an individual” by excavating and repairing a dark past, while also appreciating the joy of story-telling in Grand Greenhouse Repair Report that fluently unfolds a vast period, spanning two centuries, through characters playing the roles of both listeners and speakers.