Bright Night

밝은밤

I have a desire to write about my mother or grandmother, the women who lived on this land long ago.
A female version of "To Live," the friendship, struggle, tears, and laughter of four generations of women. 220,000 readers of South Korea's largest online bookstore voted it "Book of the Year 2021"
Winner of the 29th Dashan Literature Award, the first novel by talented writer Choi Eun-young!
Women are no longer mere characters for sympathy and pity, nor are they supporting roles that embellish men's magnificent lives.
They are themselves, living like insignificant grass, supporting each other and doing their best to fight against the absurd times.
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After divorcing my husband, at 31, I traveled alone to the coastal town of Xiling, where I ran into my grandmother, whom I hadn't seen in years. After an awkward silence, our lonely hearts gradually grew closer, and my grandmother and I became close friends, sharing our hearts. In an old photo album in my grandmother's old house, I discovered a woman who looked very similar to me, snuggled up next to my grandmother in her youth.
One by one, vivid faces gradually appeared before me from black and white photos, from touching letters, and from distant memories, passing through an era when women's lives were like drifting duckweed and their lives were worthless.
The story that came to me through my great-grandmother, grandmother and mother,
Their lives replayed before my eyes.
Can I reach them now?
Just as countless past selves make up the present me,
Can the present me also see the countless past me’s?

2023-08-01

台海出版社

Motie·Dayu Reading

296

9787516835265