- Overview
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This book tells the unrequited love story of Yi Jin, the woman who records the soul and Yi Hyeon, the man who loves her
- Book Intro
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The book begins with the voice of Yi Jin who accepts as her calling, chronicling the soulful stories of ordinary people. Then there is Yi Hyeon, with a promising job of an elite government position at the Ministry of Finance and Economy who falls in love with her. He sees in Yi Jin the visage of a woman who shook his whole being as a child. As fate will have it, he is irrevocably drawn to her. “Yi Jin’s chronicle,” which is interjected between their narratives, serves as a separate independent story and at the same time that overlaps with the main plot as the novel progresses.
- About the Author
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Sim Yun Kyung
(English) In 2002, she became the seventh winner of the Hankyoreh Literary prize for her autobiographical coming-of-age novel, My Beautiful Garden; thus began her writing career. In 2005, she received the 6th Muyeung Literary Prize for “The Moon’s Altar.” She is the author of the following full-length novels, Yi Hyeon’s Love Story, Love is Running, and Love Completes, Seol-I and her novel in serialization, The People of Seorabeol, and a children’s book, Report on Reconciliation.
(Japanese) 大学卒業後、しばらく会社員生活を経て、1998年から小説を書き始める。2002年、自伝的成長小説『私の美しい庭』で第7回ハンギョレ文学賞を受賞し、作品活動を開始。2005年『月の祭壇』で第6回ムヨン文学賞を受賞し、長編小説『イ・ヒョンの恋』、『徐羅伐(ソラバル)の人々』、『愛が走る』、『愛が満ちる』、童話『和解する報告書』などを発表した。
