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Land

Pak Kyongni

Form
Form Historical Novel
Year
Year 1969
Originally in
Originally in Korean
Pages
Pages 800

Under a harvest moon in 1897, the rice fields of Pyeongsari hang heavy and gold, and the great Choi family who own them believe their world will stand forever. It will not.

The Harvest Moon Festival of the eighth lunar month—doesn't it have something of the translucent and frosty pathos of the finest hemp?
Land, Pak Kyongni

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