title: A Most Ambiguous Sunday and Other Stories (Library of Korean Literature)
author: Jung Young-Moon
description: Novelist, short-story writer, translator, playwright, and teacher, Jung Young-moon was born in Hamyang, South Korea, in 1965. He graduated from Seoul National University with a degree in psychology. He made his literary debut in 1996 when his novel A Man Who Barely Exists. He has also translated more than forty English books into Korean.
zlib_text: TITLES IN THE LIBRARY OF KOREAN LITERATURE
  AVAILABLE FROM DALKEY ARCHIVE PRESS
  1. Stingray
  Kim Joo-young
  2. One Spoon on This Earth
  Hyun Ki Young
  3. When Adam Opens His Eyes
  Jang Jung-il
  4. My Son’s Girlfriend
  Jung Mi-kyung
  5. A Most Ambiguous Sunday, and Other Stories
  Jung Young Moon
  6. The House with a Sunken Courtyard
  Kim Won-il
  7. At Least We Can Apologize
  Lee Ki-ho
  8. The Soil
  2
  
  Yi Kwang-su
  9. Lonesome You
  Park Wan-suh
  10. No One Writes Back
  Jang Eun-jin
  3
  
  LIBRARY OF KOREAN LITERATURE
  8
  The Soil
  Yi Kwang-su
  Translated by
  Hwang Sun-Ae and
  Horace Jeffery Hodges
  4
  
  Contents
  The Soil
  5
  
  1-1
  After returning from the night school where he taught, Heo
  Sung lay down, resting his neck upon his schoolbag and
  lacing his fingers behind his head to form a pillow. Lying
  still, he could hear mosquitoes buzzing to and fro as they tried
  to get around the mosquito-repellent smoke. Now that the
  seventh month of the lunar calendar was half past, the wind
  felt a bit cool after nightfall.
  For a coupl