The last book based on the theme of Refugees that I would like to discuss as part of the series ‘Books and Authors’ is the book by the Korean author Choi Jin-young's titled as ‘To the Warm Horizon’. The book falls under the genre of Lesbian fiction. The excerpt taken from the novel is about Dora and Jina. Both of them are fleeing a pandemic that’s wiped out the country. The book is translated by So. J. Lee. The excerpt presents the predicament of the refugees. To quote from the excerpt “We, who had lost our family and become refugees could not laugh. We had left our jokes and our laughter behind in our hometown”. The relationship between Dori and Jina is the central focus in the excerpt. One word to describe Dori is ‘nonchalant’. It was Jina who persuaded Dori and the little girl Miso to join them in the car. Other members of the group decided her as ‘a cold-hearted girl’. The instant bonding that happened between Dora and Jina is described in these words - I didn’t know Dori’s wounds, and Dori didn’t know mine— perhaps that’s why we could see each other as we were in that moment. It was even possible for us to build a new story of our own.
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