빛의 호위

Two strands cross, moving between Belgium under the Nazis, New York and present-day Seoul. In 1940, as Jews are ordered to report, an unknown horn player in the Brussels Philharmonic hides a fellow musician, the violinist Alma Meyer. Every second week he carries bread to her hiding place, never enough, with new music he has composed for her tucked beneath it. After the war her son, Norman Meyer, honours that kindness not by thanking the man but by helping strangers without giving his name. In Seoul, a reporter interviews Kwon Eun, a young photographer whose pictures tell Norman's story, and has forgotten a childhood visit to her home after her father was found dead: the young reporter took a camera from home for her to sell, and she kept it. The story asks what survivors owe to others.

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About the book

Form

Short story

First published

2013 by Munhak Sasang

Author's age

37 when first published