- Yi Sang Literary Award 2011 · Excellence prize
The Night Nobody Returns Home
아무도 돌아오지 않는 밤 · Amudo doraoji anneun bam
Kim Soom (김숨, born 1974)
Translated by Jeon Miseli
English editions
In EnglishThe Night Nobody Returns Home
Asia Publishers · South Korea · 13 June 2014 · 135 pages
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A woman lives with her husband's elderly father in an uneasy arrangement: sitting at the same table as him is an ordeal, yet she dreads the day he asks for the family money her husband ran through to be repaid. Then comes a night when the father-in-law, the husband and a neighbour from flat 202 are all out and none of them returns. As the hours pass she waits for them, and the night blurs the lines between the living and the dead.
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About the book
- Form
- Short story
- First published
- 2010 by Munhak Sasang
- Author's age
- 36 when first published
- ISBN
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9791156620358 (Asia Publishers, South Korea)