The Portable Library of Korean Literature 12

by Daenyeong Yun
Original title: Chonjigan

size: 18.8x12cm; 79 pages. publisher: Jimoondang, 2002.


About this book

Between Heaven and Earth, the winner of the Yi-Sang Literature Prize in 1996, is about a man, who, on his way to pay a visit of condolence, comes across a woman whose face is covered with the cold shadow of death. His memory of his own life having been saved by the sacrifice of his friend¡¯s precious life when he was nine, makes him suddenly change his destination and follow the woman to Wando on a snowy evening. Hi has a brief affair with the woman, who actually lured him to follow her in order to erase her previous life with a man who desert her and left her pregnant. This moving story of a contingent relationship is permeated with the color of milky white, symbolizing life, and that color reigns over the black color of death.

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