Courtesans, tigers and patriots: why is it worth reading the novel "Beasts of the Little Earth"?"The novel 'Beasts of the Little Earth' immerses the reader in the culture and history of Korea, opening the way to a world where 'small' does not always mean 'weak', and strength is in love." — Maria Osetrova, orientalist, scientific editor of the work1917. Korea is a Japanese colony. A peasant family in desperate straits sells a ten-year-old daughter named Jasper to a courtesan school. Her only close friend is the orphan boy Jeonho, a beggar from the streets of Seoul. Growing up, Jeonho will be involved in the revolutionary struggle for the independence of the country, and Jasper will become a sought-after artist. Wherever the fate of the characters of Chuhe Kim takes them: from the fashionable cafes of Seoul to the snow-covered forests of Manchuria, and somewhere between the pages a tiger lurks."'Beasts of the Little Earth' is a work for those who are not afraid to study the ambiguous pages of history and are ready to personally understand the intricacies of time." — Anna Semida, Japanese scholar, scientific editor of the work "This is an extraordinarily humane and very tender novel about the cruelty of life, a work about how fate unexpectedly brings people together, and how such meetings, even the most fleeting, affect our further path." — Kirill Batygin, translator