직선과 독가스 - 병동에서
About the Original Works
- Original Title
- 직선과 독가스 - 병동에서
- Title Romanization
- jicsunggoadokgaseu-byungdongoeseo
- English Title(Printed)
- Straight Lines and Poison Gas
- Classification
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KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Complete Collection > Library > Complete Collection (individual)
- Author
- Lim Chulwoo
- Co-Author
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- Published Year
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- Publisher
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- ISBN
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- Main Characters
- Heo Sang-gu, his wife, Mrs. Haenam
- Subject/Theme
- Gwangju Uprising; tragedy of modern history; suffering of survivors
Heo Sang-gu, a newspaper cartoonist, notices the smell of toxic gas one day, and begins to search for its source. The smell grows worse when Heo hears Mrs. Haenam’s muttering and weeping from inside her apartment, where she has been waiting for her missing son for four years. However, nobody else seems to have noticed the gas, and Sang-gu undergoes psychiatric evaluation.
Translated Books1
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English(English) Book AvailableStraight Lines and Poison Gas - At the Hospital Wards