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In his ninth year of study in the United States, twenty-eight-year-old Jong-su is politely told by his supervisor that he does not fit in, which means he must leave. Drunk, he smashes open a locked desk drawer and finds a wedding invitation he had forgotten ever receiving, from Su-yeong. The summer they were eighteen she turned up asking him to translate a letter into English: she wanted to dress in Ralph Lauren from head to toe and meant to ask him to make a watch, the one thing he never made. Moving between that summer and the present, Jong-su spends a year in America trying to learn why Ralph Lauren made no watches, reading everything he can and meeting people who knew him, each of whom turns out to have a story of their own.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Love, Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

United States, South Korea

First published

2017 by Munhakdongne

Author's age

37 when first published

ISBN

9788954645089 (original)