- Yi Sang Literary Award 2013 · Excellence prize
기억의 고고학―내 멕시코 삼촌
Gieogui gogohak: nae Meksiko samchon
“An Archaeology of Memory: My Mexican Uncle” (title translated by AI)
Ham Jeong-im (함정임, born 1964)
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One email from Mexico pulls a woman back to her early years and to her Mexican uncle, who played for her on a red accordion whose bellows opened and closed like lungs; his songs left her homesick for places she had never seen. Those years also hold deaths she was too small to understand, and all the more frightening for it. Digging through memory, she finds it was the music that once lifted that shadow from her.
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About the book
- Form
- Short story
- First published
- 2012 by Munhak Sasang
- Author's age
- 48 when first published