시인의 별

Working from a line in the chronicles and a seventeenth-century manuscript about a Goryeo clerk called An, a scholar decides that both record the same man and retells his life in seven annotated episodes. An Hyeon, erudite and upright, cannot rise in a dark age under Yuan rule. Newly married to a gentle wife, he swallows his pride and takes a post at a relay station on Daecheong Island, where a Mongol prince has been sent into exile. When the prince demands his wife, the couple flee by night, but she is seized, and An sets out across the vast mainland to find her.

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About the book

Form

Short story

Length

442 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

South Korea, China, late 13th century

First published

1999 by Munhak Sasang

Author's age

33 when first published

ISBN

9788970123455 (original)