My Body Has Stood or Walked Too Long

Yi Mun-gu · 2000 CE · Short Story · Korean · Contemporary

Linked stories set in a Chungcheong countryside as its old village life empties out. They were the last collection Yi published before his death in 2003. They return to the rural ground of his Kwanch'on Essays, and won the Dong-in Literary Award.

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