“The Novice Shaman Studying Previous Lives” by Lee Solar-young (Clayhouse)
“The Novice Shaman Studying Previous Lives”
By Lee Solar-young
Clayhouse
A pair of novice shamans declare that past-life insights can unravel present-day issues. With their assist, individuals discover a second probability at life on this heartwarming drama infused with comedy and emotion.
The fortune-telling store Miss Korea has garnered a status for serving to purchasers uncover their previous lives.
The colourful place is run by two shamans: There’s the enigmatic Madame Go, whose age stays a thriller, and Dong-ja, wanting like an peculiar man in conventional Korean apparel, who claims that he communicates with a toddler spirit. If the fortunes don’t hit the mark, they even provide a “retouch” — the 2 daring and unconventional shamans opening new doorways in individuals’s lives.
From a school pupil who secretly drops out of faculty as a result of he can’t discover his dream, a weary physician of a neighborhood clinic uninterested in listening to his aged sufferers say, “You would possibly as properly die once you’re outdated,” a housewife caught in a stagnant marriage and an aged man amassing scrap metallic to make ends meet to a disabled particular person scuffling with inventory market losses — these shamans not solely raise their spirits but additionally appear to rewrite their destinies. Their purchasers go away with extra than simply laughter and luxury; they stroll away with solutions to life’s hardest questions.
Creator Lee Solar-young made her debut with the award-winning thriller novel “The Final Pythagorean” (2010). Her earlier novel, “The Love Pharmacy of the Botero Household,” has been translated into a number of languages together with Italian, French and Spanish.