US & Canada: Ecco (Nov 25, 2025)
UK: Borough Press (Nov 25, 2025)
Korea: Dasan (TBA)
From the acclaimed author of Beasts of a Little Land and City of Night Birds, an exquisite, globetrotting story collection about humans in precarious balance with the natural world
Spanning multiple locales and epochs, and rendered in fine detail and vivid color, this transportive collection shows what it means to live as human inhabitants on our one miraculous planet. Each of these ten evocative stories is a reflection of individual choice in the face of man-made apocalypse: in a near-future Seoul encased in a translucent Biodome, a civil engineer charged with its upkeep contemplates an arranged marriage. An American painter travels to the South of France and is seduced by an entrepreneur who claims to have unlocked human consciousness. And where the Indian and Pacific Oceans meet, on an island that has turned into a gargantuan landfill from other countries' waste, a boy has a fateful brush with K-pop superstars.
With the clear-eyed reverence of Richard Powers and the sparkling sincerity of George Saunders, Juhea Kim’s first story collection views our broken world—and broken hearts—from breathtaking heights. A Love Story from the End of the World delivers an impassioned reminder that we are human—but without nature, we are nothing at all.
Opening story "Biodome" optioned for film adaptation
Praise for A Love Story from the End of the World
"Lush and evocative, Juhea Kim's A Love Story from the End of the World is like a precision cut diamond that fractures light into a spectrum of possible futures on this, our wounded planet . . . Despite flights of imagination, Kim's stories ultimately tether us to the earth and demand that we give it our attention. This is an exquisite and essential collection."
—Talia Lakshmi Kolluri, author of What We Fed to the Manticore