Lit in Translation

엄마도 아시다시피

Eommado asidasipi

“As You Know, Mother” (title translated by AI)

Chun Woon-young (천운영, born 1971)

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An aging eldest son loses his mother at eighty-five. His attachment to her ran unusually deep, and with her gone he tries, in a way all his own, to bring the missing mother back into his life. The thought that he has become an orphan startles him; he forces it down, but it rises again and breaks out as weeping. The story is a reminder that people are born children and die children, however old they grow.

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About the book

Form
Short story
First published
2012 by Moonji
Author's age
41 when first published
ISBN

9788932024158 (original)