그 여자의 자서전

Eight stories that lay a generation's passion and disillusion over private hopes and failures. In the title story, a novelist whose twenties fell in the 1980s takes a lavish fee to ghostwrite the life of a newly rich man; the work goes smoothly until his supposed part in the fight for democracy, when memories of her own youthful love and ideals leave her ashamed, and then her brother calls asking for money. Other stories follow a jilted man who has dropped out of ordinary life and a woman on the margins in money trouble.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

266 pages in the original

Set in

South Korea

First published

2005 by Changbi

Author's age

42 when first published