네가 누구든 얼마나 외롭든
About the Original Works
- Original Title
- 네가 누구든 얼마나 외롭든
- Title Romanization
- Nega nugudeun eolmana oeropdeun
- Title Sub
- 김연수 장편소설
- English Title(Printed)
- Whoever You are, No Matter How Lonely
- Classification
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KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 20th century
- Author
- Kim Yeonsu
- Co-Author
- -
- Published Year
- 2007
- Publisher
- 문학동네
- ISBN
- 9788954603980
- The Series
- Munhakdongne Novel
- Main Characters
- The narrator, Jeongmin, Kang Siu (also Yi Gilyong)
- Subject/Theme
- Coincidence
It is the 1980s, and the narrator, a South Korean student activist, finds himself in Berlin. There, he meets Yi Gilyong, a film director and labor activist, but the latter has been brainwashed by the South Korean intelligence service and is working as a spy under the alias Kang Siu. The narrator happens to possess a black-and-white nude photo of a woman, left behind by his grandfather (who was forcibly conscripted during the Japanese occupation), and is startled to discover that Kang Siu owns an identical copy. Kang Siu is also in some way connected to Jeongmin, the narrator’s girlfriend: Jeongmin’s maternal uncle, who died of a suicidal drug overdose, and Kang Siu’s grandfather were both involved in the manufacture of amphetamine in Japan. Brought together by coincidence, the three characters explore their own identities, and determine what it is exactly that led to their encounter.
E-Books & Audiobooks1
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English(English) E-BooksWhoever You are, No Matter How Lonely