The Nine Cloud Dream

“It’s about a monk who’s trying to gain enlightenment, but at some point he dies and transitions into another life. He leads this entire other life, and during the course of it, he encounters a series of women with whom he has various different kinds of relationships. And then the whole thing turns out to be a classic of the dream narrative genre, because he wakes up and realizes that this entire life that he had was a mere dream. He didn’t die and wasn’t reborn as this man, and the entire thing held a lesson for him about the nature of life and death and reincarnation and so on.” Read more...

The Best Korean Mythology and Classic Fantasy Books

Minsoo Kang, Historian