Lit in Translation

And Then the Festival

그리고, 축제 · Geurigo, chukje

Lee Hye-kyung (이혜경, born 1960)

Translated by Bruce Fulton, Ju-Chan Fulton

English editions

In English

  • And Then the Festival

    Asia Publishers · South Korea · 3 March 2014 · 114 pages

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Ji-seon married a man everyone envied for his understanding, but at her wedding the sight of one face brought back the secret she had kept since she was twelve, an assault she believed she had left behind. Her body began to shut her husband out, and now they live apart. Through Jin, a former colleague, a swaggering company man who cannot quite turn away from her trouble, she travels to Indonesia to write a piece and meets people whose lives were broken by the bombings in Bali. Instead of brooding on her own wound she finds herself feeling theirs, and watching how they go on living through rites that ask the gods for forgiveness.

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About the book

Form
Short story
First published
2008 by Munhak Sasang
Author's age
48 when first published
ISBN

9791156620112 (Asia Publishers, South Korea)