![]() ![]() That was why she’d name herself after them. Sprout wanted to do something with her life, just like the sprouts on the acacia tree. A sprout grew into a leaf and embraced the wind and the sun before falling and rotting and turning into mulch for bringing fragrant flowers into bloom. ![]() Nobody knew this but she even gave herself a name: Sprout. The main character is a hen raised for her eggs she spent her whole life in a farm, never stepping outside the coop so her biggest dreams were to be able to wander around, flap her wings and sit on her own eggs. The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly is a small novel written in 2000 by the South Korean writer and professor Sun-mi Hwang, a book often compared to Animal Farm and Charlotte’s Web, an allegory that explores a great variety of existential themes: life and death, motherhood, freedom and choice, happiness, racism, tradition versus modernity, empathy and love. Then you come across an author like Sun-mi Hwang that writes a story so tender and intense that makes you reconsider all your judgments. It’s funny how usually we disconsider hens, blaming them for being too dull and too simplistic in their existence. ![]() In limba romana: Gainusa care voia sa zboare, EdituraArthur, 2016 ![]() Published 2014 by Oneworld Publications, 144p (first published 2000). Sun-mi Hwang, The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly. ![]()
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