바다와 나비

Using her child's schooling in China as her reason, the narrator has left her husband in Korea and moved abroad; once the child boards at school, she is on her own. Asked by Chae-geum's mother to look the young woman up, she meets someone set on reaching Korea at any cost, and slowly sees what they share: a wish to walk away from their lives, hers a marriage of make-believe contentment, Chae-geum's a blind father.

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About the book

Form

Short story

Length

356 pages in the original

Genres

Migration, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

China, South Korea

First published

2002 by Munhak Sasang

Author's age

39 when first published

ISBN

9788970124414 (original)