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Park, Jang and Daesu met at fifteen and went everywhere together for some twenty years. Daesu has died, and Jang, the narrator, has called off his wedding; Park and his wife seem to be quietly looking after him. On the first morning of the summer break Park arrives unannounced and insists Jang come away with his family. The holiday is made of small things: cold buckwheat noodles for lunch, word-chain games in a traffic jam, a swim and a barbecue at a guesthouse, water sledding with the children in the rain, an afternoon at a gallery, where Jang remembers a woman who once deceived him. A middle-aged man on his own weighs present pleasures against the past.

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2014 by Munhak Sasang