- Yi Sang Literary Award 2006 · Winner
My Son's Girlfriend
밤이여, 나뉘어라 · Bamiyeo, nanwieora
Jung Mi-kyung (정미경, born 1960)
Translated by Yu Young-nan
English editions
In EnglishMy Son's Girlfriend
Dalkey Archive Press · United States · 2013 · 219 pages
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The narrator, a film director, has always lived beside a friend whose genius he envied and admired, an idol who served him as rival and mirror. The story carries him into foreign settings, the white nights of the far north and the paintings of Munch, where he sees the gifted man fallen apart. The collapse shakes the story he has told about his own life, and to protect that life he tries to erase the image of the broken friend from his mind.
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About the book
- Form
- Short story
- Length
- 319 pages in the original
- First published
- 2005 by Munhak Sasang
- Author's age
- 45 when first published
- ISBN
9788970127385 (original)
9781564789105 (Dalkey Archive Press, United States)