밝은 밤

Divorced, Jiyeon moves to Huiryeong, a small seaside town, to begin again as a researcher at an observatory. There she meets again the grandmother she had not seen for years, since her grandmother and her mother fell out. The old woman has long lived alone and knows how to look after herself, doing small jobs with friends her own age. Both were quiet children who learned to endure. Reading aloud the letters her grandmother has kept from Jiyeon's great-grandmother, a butcher's daughter who suffered every kind of contempt, Jiyeon finds a century of women's lives running from great-grandmother to grandmother, mother and herself, and with it a way to heal her own hurt.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

343 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

South Korea

First published

2021 by Munhakdongne

Author's age

37 when first published

ISBN

9788954681179 (original)