천국의 문

An old man's dying drags on, and the daughter who looks after him has watched her own life fall apart along the way. Even as she tends him she longs, in private, for him to die, and the story moves between past and present to trace a family worn hollow by the loss of a father's care. Through one failing body it asks what an individual death means in Korea today, and what dignity remains for the relatives who must outlive it.

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About the book

Form

Short story

Length

328 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

South Korea

First published

2015 by Munhak Sasang

Author's age

45 when first published

ISBN

9788970129495 (original)