Pavane for a Dead Princess by Min-gyu ParkMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
While riding their horse, from time to time,
they dismount and turn to look back over the way they came.
This was not done to rest themselves or their horse.
It was an act of waiting for their souls to catch up to them,
as souls tread much more slowly than we do.
Only when they are sure their souls are by their side,
do they continue on their journey.
"Because their lives are so boring and because death isn't coming for them anytime soon, the Seven Dwarfs get gigs as television studio audiences, those people who cheer when a special guest is introduced in the studio and sob when the guest shares a heartfelt story of personal survival and burst out laughing when she regales them with a funny episode, with their reactions later being used as sound effects for the show. And then they'll die"
Probably the best book I've read so far this year.
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