아침의 문

He is thirty-two and quit delivering parcels two months ago, convinced he is riddled with cancers that somehow never slow him down. On a fine morning he winds a bandage around a steel hook, steps onto a chair and puts his head through. Across the street, on the roof of the shopping arcade he has stared at through countless cigarette breaks, a woman he does not know lies in labour by herself, a bandage clenched between her teeth, delivering a child no one blessed. Between the noose and the womb, two round doors open onto the same morning.

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About the book

Form

Short story

Length

356 pages in the original

First published

2009 by Munhak Sasang

Author's age

41 when first published

ISBN

9788970128450 (original)