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Kim Ae-ran김애란
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2007
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Literary Fiction 소설
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Updated: 2024-12-17
- Posted by Moonji Publishing co., Ltd. on 2024-12-17
Description 작품 소개
The title story A Pool of Saliva details the short period during which a Korean language teacher at a cram school lives with a younger guy she knows who has no money. One day the guy knocks on the girl’s door asking her to put him up for just one night. But on hearing that his mother gave him a package of gum before she disappeared from his life, and that since then he always gets a pool of saliva in his mouth whenever he parts with someone he loves, she decides to let him move in. She also gets him casual work editing students’s essays. But when she is scolded by the boss for a mistake that he makes, she gets fed up with living together and schemes to get him out of the house. She succeeds when she finds traces of “physiological matter” on the blankets. With the house back to herself, she chews on the half-piece of gum that the guy left behind.
KIM Ae-Ran was born in Incheon in 1980 and grew up in Seosan. She won The 2002 Daesan Literary Awards College Students. She was also The recipient of the 2005 Hankookilbo Literary Award, The 2008 LEE Hyo-Seok Literary Award. The 4th KIM Yu Jung Literary Awards, 2013 YI Sang Literary Award. Her anthologies of short stories are Run, Pop, Run! A Pool of Saliva and Vapor Trail, My Palpitating Life is her full-length novel.
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