마음의 부력

It starts with a phone call: the narrator's mother, alone in their home village, rings his wife and asks for money back that, she says, belongs to her eldest son. That son is dead. The narrator and his wife drive down for the weekend, and the visit pulls him back into the years he and his brother grew up in, a rivalry with echoes of Jacob and Esau. He starts to notice signs that his mother's mind is slipping, and sees how she still blames herself for never having supported her firstborn in anything he wanted to do.

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About the book

Form

Short story

Length

368 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

South Korea

First published

2020 by Munhak Sasang

Author's age

61 when first published

ISBN

9788970124841 (original)