{"id":5375,"date":"2021-07-06T07:42:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T13:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5375"},"modified":"2021-07-06T07:42:10","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T13:42:10","slug":"kim-hyo-euns-i-am-the-subway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5375","title":{"rendered":"Kim Hyo-eun’s I Am the Subway<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nI’ve a review over at BookPage<\/em> of Kim Hyo-eun’s<\/a><\/strong> beguiling I Am the Subway<\/em> (Scribble, August 2021), orginally published in South Korea in 2016 and translated by Deborah Smith. <\/p>\n

The review is here<\/a><\/strong>, and below are some spreads. <\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n


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“I travel over the ground and rumble under, twice across the wide Han River.
Around I go, around and around. Crowds of people wait to climb aboard.”<\/em>
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“Sneakers that like to splash through muddy puddles, black shoes that hurry to the office every morning, new shoes saved for a special day, battered cast-offs re-heeled and patched \u2014 I can tell so much about a person just from looking at their shoes.
All kinds find their way to my door \u2014 shoes that have traveled near and far.”<\/em>
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“Do-young offers his arm to Yeon-woo, the little boy sliding around. Yeon-woo hides his face and Do-young gives him a gentle smile. ba-dum, ba-dum ba-du-bum, ba-dum”<\/em>
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“Oh my travels I meet so many people and things: an old lady telling stories in the market amid the noise of buying and selling; the scent of fried chicken, crispy and hot, shared by a dad and his son as a special treat …”<\/em>
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“… a gentle afternoon light that washes over everything \u2014
old shoes, new shoes, clean and dull shoes.”<\/em>
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I AM THE SUBWAY. Text and illustrations copyright \u00a9 Kim Hyo-eun, 2016. Translation copyright \u00a9 Deborah Smith, 2020. Originally published in Korean, 2016. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Scribble.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  I’ve a review over at BookPage of Kim Hyo-eun’s beguiling I Am the Subway (Scribble, August 2021), orginally published in South Korea in 2016 and translated by Deborah Smith. The review is here, and below are some spreads. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}