홈 스위트 홈

The narrator holds beliefs that defy sense: that time is not a line from yesterday to tomorrow but the scattered shards of one explosion, and that a tiled house with a well can be recalled although Mother says it cannot. Three years into living with Eo-jin, the couple are fraying, so rather than separate they relocate to a little flat in Boryeong, wooded hills behind and the sea in front. Life eases, but shortly before the wedding comes a cancer diagnosis, and within a year the cancer is back. Rather than look away from the chance of a third time, the narrator decides to choose a future, beginning with a house.

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About the book

Form

Short story

Length

296 pages in the original

Set in

South Korea

First published

2022 by Munhak Sasang

Author's age

41 when first published

ISBN

9788970125640 (original)