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Lee Seung-u

이승우

Born 1959 · South Korea

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    Yi Sang 2021 · Winner

    마음의 부력

    Maeumui buryeok

    Title translated by AI:“The Buoyancy of the Heart”

    Lee Seung-u · 61 when first published

    Short story · 368 pages · Family

    AI-generated summary:When his elderly mother, living alone in the country, phones his wife to demand money she says belongs to her dead elder son, a man drives home and finds her changed, still tormented by guilt over the son she never backed.