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Since his divorce Jae-seo has drifted, and now runs a copy shop on a city's fringe that his father more or less pressed on him. Across the street Mi-yong sells side dishes. She is roughly his age, unmarried and childless, which keeps the long-time residents suspicious, and so self-effacing that people forget she is there. One day she leaves a USB stick behind after printing, and he reads what she has written: that she lost herself the moment she came into the world, the fourth child born to a woman who first became a mother at eighteen, and grew up making herself small and polite to survive. Then she mentions buying a black mask to hunt someone down.

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About the book

Form

Short story

Length

320 pages in the original

Set in

South Korea

First published

2023 by Munhak Sasang

Author's age

54 when first published

ISBN

9788970125947 (original)