그 여름의 수사
About the Original Works
- Original Title
- 그 여름의 수사
- Title Romanization
- kŭ yŏrŭmŭi susab
- English Title
- Telegram That Summer
- Classification
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KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century
- Author
- Ha Seong-nan
- Co-Author
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- Published Year
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- ISBN
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- Main Characters
- Narrator, the narrator’s parents and grandfather
- Subject/Theme
- Telegram; limited communication; communication among family
The main character is told by her mother that she should send a telegram to her father to let him know that his mother passed away. The family sends telegrams instead of calling one another when something important happens in the family, and it is the main character’s job not only to deliver messages to her father in Busan but also to convey the family’s anxieties and concerns for one another.
Translated Books1
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