풍경소리

Since her mother's death Miwa has kept hearing a cat cry that no one else hears. Her mother bore her in secret past the age of thirty, brought her up alone for twenty-four years, later wed an American and emigrated with the family cat; she now lies in a grave on a hillside above a lake. A friend promises Miwa that the chimes of Seongbul Temple can change a person, so she goes to stay there, setting down the monks' plain days in pencil in a paper notebook, along with their food and the voices of wind, birds and water, while an unseen presence watches her.

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About the book

Form

Short story

Length

352 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

South Korea

First published

2016 by Munhak Sasang

ISBN

9788970129631 (original)