Lit in Translation

나선의 방향

Naseonui banghyang

“The Direction of the Spiral” (title translated by AI)

Ahn Bo-yoon (안보윤)

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Two brothers live with the aftermath of a car crash: the elder, hurt while protecting the younger, lost his voice, and the younger carries the guilt. A clothing trade built on the younger one's hard work steadies their lives, so they split it up, the elder buying stock in Dongdaemun, the younger selling it far from Seoul. Then a strange woman called Mal-im appears to the elder brother. The story is told in a main text and its footnotes.

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About the book

Form
Short story
First published
2013 by Munhak Sasang