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Broken Summer

Author

Lee Jung-myung

Publisher

EunHaeng NaMu Publishing Co., Ltd.

Categories

Literature & Fiction

Audience

Adult

Overseas Licensing

Keywords

  • #Korean literature
  • #fiction
  • #thriller
  • #family

Copyright Contact

Lee Hyae-myung

  • Publication Date

    2021-05-05
  • No. of pages

    372
  • ISBN

    9791197071573
  • Dimensions

    135 * 205
Overview

The morning you reach the pinnacle of success, your wife disappears. The book tells how lies and misconceptions interfere in a person’s life, shattering a sweet and happy family, completely robbing them of their lives through the twisted fates of three people.

Book Intro

A new novel by Lee Jung-Myung, whose books Deep-rooted Tree, The Painter of Wind, and The Investigation have been sold over a million copies. Broken Summer tells how lies and misunderstandings can interfere in a person’s life, completely shattering relationships in a sweet, happy family, through the twisted fates of three people.

 The morning Hanjo, a famous painter, turns forty-four, his wife is nowhere to be found. The kitchen and living room are spotless, as if someone who planned to be away from home for a long time had carefully put everything in order. Her cell phone is turned off, as if she weren’t going to return soon, not like she went out for just a while. Hanjo asks around the stores where she was a regular, but the owners all give him the same answer—they do not know where she is. A perfect day, the day he reaches the peak of success, his wife disappears. Hanjo has no way to know if she has left him, abandoned him, or fled from him. Then suddenly, he catches sight of a thick envelope on the desk in his wife’s office. It is a novel she has written. Her novel takes Hanjo back to a summer twenty-five years ago, to the Howard mansion that dominated Hanjo’s childhood. Hanjo realizes that he has not dared to face what happened twenty-five years ago like it was nothing, that he has pushed off facing it until now and that he can push it off no longer.

 Two families had happened to become neighbors. One ended up providing a killer and one a victim. The truth of that day was never clearly uncovered. Someone chose to put the lives of his family before the truth. And another someone chose love over the lives of his family. The truth seen from each person’s position, on that truth, that shaky boundary, the people were swept into a tragic fate. The novel asks us if perhaps our lives are made up of bundles of illusions and misunderstandings that differ only slightly from the truth. An unexpected murder twists the misconceptions and misunderstandings of three men and women like a chain that will not untangle. Punishment and revenge follow because one misunderstands the truth and believes the realities disclosed to be a lie. The novel tells readers that the time one has destroyed himself cannot easily be restored, and it asks what meaning truth has in the life of one individual when it makes everyone suffer.

About the Author

Lee Jung-myung



Lee Jung-myung has published the novels The Deep Rooted Tree, which depicts the little-known serial murders of the Jiphyeonjeon Hall scholars which lay behind the creation of Hangeul, and The Painter of the Wind, a mystery that unravels the secrets inside the paintings of Shin Yunbok and Gim Hongdo. He opened up a new chapter in Korean fiction, receiving an explosive response from readers for his fast-paced novels that include great period consciousness and in-depth intellectual quests. He also wrote The Investigation, which was nominated for the UK's Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2015 and won the Italy's Premio Selezione Bancarella, a literary award, in 2017, a first for a Korean. Other novels by Lee include After a Millennium, The Sunflower, The Last Picnic, and Memories of Evil.

 

Lee Jung-Myung opened a new chapter in Korean fiction, gaining an explosive response from readers, with fast-developing stories of deep intellectual inquiry. His novel, The Painter of Wind was adapted into a TV drama in 2008, and his novel Deep-rooted Tree was adapted into a miniseries that aired in 2011.

His novel, The Investigation (2012) became an instant bestseller upon its release and was translated and published in eleven countries including the United Kingdom. In 2018, he became the first South Korean writer to receive the Premio Selezione Bancarella, the most prestigious literary prize in Italy, for The Investigation

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