- Yi Sang Literary Award 2003 · Excellence prize
노란 연등 드높이 내걸고
Noran yeondeung deunopi naegeolgo
“Hanging the Yellow Lanterns High” (title translated by AI)
Kim Yeon-su (김연수, born 1970)
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Told in two alternating voices, the story stays with a young woman grieving after an abortion and with the one who hangs her yellow lantern high where all can see it, as a wound left by love slowly mends.
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About the book
- Form
- Short story
- First published
- 2002 by Munhak Sasang
- Author's age
- 32 when first published