Lit in Translation

천사는 여기 머문다

Cheonsaneun yeogi meomunda

“The Angel Stays Here” (title translated by AI)

Jeon Kyung-rin (전경린, born 1962)

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At twenty-nine In-hui, a clerk at a small construction firm, has never been in love. Then Mo-gyeong returns from a posting in the provinces and she falls headlong. She marries him, branded as the woman who wrecked his family, but his desire turns into suspicion and beatings, and before three years are out she leaves him. He keeps circling her, and after her mother's death he forces his way back into her rooms until she smashes every window. From her sister in Germany comes a strange offer: Heinrich, who saw her in a video of the funeral, proposes a sexless 'white marriage', run like a job.

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About the book

Form
Short story
Length
346 pages in the original
Genres
Love, Family (assigned by AI)
Set in
South Korea, Germany
First published
2006 by Munhak Sasang
Author's age
44 when first published
ISBN

9788970127774 (original)