by Kim Dong-Ni (Author)

Book Overview

Kim Dong‑Ni’s The Shaman Sorceress follows a rural woman who serves as the community’s shaman, performing rites that heal, judge, and bind her village even as those same powers isolate her. As ceremonies, spirit‑visitations, and human conflicts intensify, she must face the personal cost of authority and the fragile line between sacred intervention and destructive consequence. Blending mythic ritual with stark social realism, the novel examines gender, belief, and the collision of ancient tradition with a changing world—evocative, intimate, and morally complex.