Bitna, Under the Sky of Seoul

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio is an outstanding French writer, winner of the Renodo Prize and the 2008 Nobel Prize. A brilliant stylist who has published more than forty novels. Captivated by Korean culture, Le Clézio created an astonishingly vivid work about Seoul’s Scheherazade, whose life—albeit only for a short time—turns into a fairy tale. Bitne is almost eighteen; she lives in a small Korean village and dreams of studying. A trip to Seoul opens up new opportunities, but she needs to find work. Unexpected help comes from a woman named Salome. Because of illness, she can’t go outside, so she looks for a friend who will tell her stories—joyful and not so joyful. Bitne agrees, but the more incredible things she invents, the thinner the line becomes between the world of reality and the world of imagination.