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One Fine Crack
: A Collection of Stories by Jeong Jeonghwa

Author

Jeong Jeonghwa

Publisher

SANZINI

Categories

Literature & Fiction

Audience

Adult

Overseas Licensing

Keywords

  • #Story collection
  • #couple
  • #family
  • #short story

Copyright Contact

Kang Sugeul

  • Publication Date

    2019-12-17
  • No. of pages

    240
  • ISBN

    9788965456377
  • Dimensions

    140 * 205
Overview

Eight stories about the lives of people who have twisted relationships with their parents, children, spouses, friends, and colleagues at work.

Book Intro

This is the second collection of stories by writer Jeong Jeonghwa. The eight stories in One Fine Crack focus on the lives of people whose relationships with their parents, children, spouses, friends and colleagues at work have become contorted.
The writer repeatedly introduces protagonists who yearn for a true life and pursue true values despite a reality surging with hypocrisy and lies. In so doing, she is asking readers about a life in pursuit of the true self. Interpretations offered by literary critic Professor Gu Mo-ryong also add depth to the understanding of the stories in this collection.
Jeong points the spotlight on the specific lives of the people whose family and social relationships have become distorted. She traces the sphere of life by drawing concentric circles of family (A Story I Want to Remember, Ward 201), husband and wife (A Man Stacking a Rock Pile, One Fine Crack), school and work (Mask, Hey You! Are You Okay?, Cross-Dresser) and friends (Empty House).
The title story, One Fine Crack, is about a married woman who prematurely enters menopause in her late thirties. After learning of her early menopause, she vacates the house late one night, leaving her child alone at home. Her husband, I, searches for the reason behind his wife’s sudden change of behavior and realizes that the crucial incident that drove a crack through their relationship was a trivial matter. The story shows that indeed the distance between couples can grow when the gap caused by one fine crack slowly expands.
In this story, the writer portrays a husband who is tied to his performance at work and fails to look after his family; a wife struggling with a career break and childrearing; and the relationship of a married couple that is falling apart under the strain of such factors. The image of the couple in conflict and struggling between work, family, and childcare triggers empathy in the reader, for it is what we, their contemporaries, are going through.

About the Author

Jeong Jeonghwa



Jeong was born in Baenaetgol, a valley in Ulju, Ulsan. In 2015, she won the spring literary contest of the Gyeongnam Newspaper and the Farmer’s Newspaper for her stories The House Where a Cat Lives (pen name Gil Seong-mi) and Fence, respectively. Her short story, Cumato was published in New Writers of 2016 and she published a collection of short stories, The House Where a Cat Lives (Yeonam Seoga) in 2017. Some of her writing has also been published in I, Live There (MunhagNamu; 2019), a collection of stories by six writers.

 

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