"Is it possible for a genuine friendship to exist between someone who believes the world is comprehensible and someone who is choking on the incomprehensibility of the world and trying to run away?"
Under the Olive Sun, the third full-length novel by Kim Cho yeop who has explored the boundaries between the human and the non-human with peerless imagination in works like The Greenhouse at the End of the Earth and The Dispatchers—is a fast-paced SF buddy road trip unfolding at the intersection of faith and science, belief and doubt.
Maintaining the breathless pace of a fast-moving chase, this novel delicately captures the inner world of "an individual human being" who cannot be explained by the grand category of humanity. The solid solidarity and narrative woven through alternating dual perspectives deliver a deep resonance and lingering impression to readers.