The Descendants of Cain
In a village north of the parallel in the first year of Soviet occupation, a landlord's grandson who has come home to teach watches a farmers' committee form around his family's own steward, and the redistribution notices go up field by field. Ojaknyŏ, the steward's daughter, has looked after the big house since she was a girl and will not stop coming to it, which puts her husband and her father on the same side against her. Hwang wrote it in Seoul after crossing from the north himself, and it stands as the fullest Korean account of what the land reform did inside one village.
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