Park Suki began her literary career in 1995, winning the Hankook Ilbo New Year's Literary Contest. She has published numerous works, including the novels Cheerful Madness, In Search of a Kiss, The Selfish Gene, Sartre Needed Three Women, and I’m Not Ready to Go Home Yet. She has also released an art essay titled You Are an Artist. Since her first exhibition in 2014, she has held ten solo exhibitions and is active as a painter.

This provocative novel starts with the primal desire for survival in the face of sudden death. Through the process of tracing the remnants of love left on a woman’s body and mind, it intricately depicts the psychology of women, revealing the raw desire that runs alongside their anxiety. The unsettling but inevitable truth that humans are mere survival machines created to preserve selfish genes, thus denying human free will, is explored in this novel.
What if death suddenly comes knocking? Without warning? "A suffering body is just a hunk of meat." This novel begins provocatively, depicting a woman’s primal desire to survive when faced with the imminent threat of death. As it follows the traces of love left on her body and mind, the novel intricately portrays the psychology of women and exposes the primal desires that push them forward in anxiety. The unsettling but unavoidable truth that humans are merely survival machines designed to preserve selfish genes—thus negating the idea of free will—is starkly laid out.
Borrowing the title from zoologist Richard Dawkins' book The Selfish Gene, this novel delves into the primal desires of a woman who, even if it means swapping her soul with her body, is unwilling to let go of the thread of life. The intimate landscape of the protagonist, Park Seul-hee, is likely a reflection of more than just the novel's world.