Lost Souls by Hwang Sunwon

Author:Hwang Sunwon [Sunwon, Hwang]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literary Criticism, Korea, Fiction, Asian, Short Stories
ISBN: 9780231520508
Google: 3uWjJVCMLFoC
Amazon: 0231149689
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2009-11-19T00:00:00+00:00

HOUSE

The rumors swept Sŏdanggol overnight: Maktong’s father had gone to the upper village to buy an ox and had gotten mixed up in gambling again. And this time he had sold his family’s home, their old, run-down thatched-roof house. It surprised no one that the buyer was said to be the new landlord, Chŏn P’ilsu. One of the local elders, Song Saengwŏn, said he had seen Maktong’s father come back home the previous evening—that’s when he must have sold off the house. All the villagers who heard this assumed that Maktong’s father had sold cheap—if you were a buyer, would you offer a fair price to someone who was desperate to get back to the gambling table? And they assumed that even the proceeds from the house had ultimately been blown. After all, Maktong’s father’s opponent, a gambler from other parts, was said to know every trick in the book. But according to a second rumor, Maktong’s father was cleaning out this man using the money from the house sale. At the same time, it was reported that at Maktong’s family’s home, when the grandfather heard that his son had sold the house he had lamented, “We’re wiped out,” pounding the ground in frustration, and had said that if he caught sight of his son he would cut his throat with the sickle, whose blade he had sharpened to a fine edge.

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