“The charming journey of life by a girl who is ready to leave her own way any time”

There, may I go?

Due to these short words, there is a girl who has lived a life that anyone cannot even dream of. A seven-year-old girl, Soo Nam, has been sold as a birthday gift to a daughter of a nobleman from a tiny village to Seoul. And she got the opportunity to travel around the earth and to finally come back home by going beyond boundaries and crossing the continents. An 8-year-old girl, Chae Ryung, the daughter of a nobleman, got Soo Nam as a birthday gift. She has lived a very good life enough to be envied by anyone, but later, she happened to go through the tough journey of life. Two main characters pioneered their own life and destiny by overcoming all kinds of hardships, such as social position, gender, education, culture, ethnicity, etc. The interesting story of characters’ growing-up with the background of Japanese colonial era and the early stage of national liberation, and the journey covering the wide space are well connected to the life of people living in those days, and make us concentrate on the past history. What would be finally created by the memories and pieces of time in front of the twisted truth?‘

There, May I Go?’ is the novel of the author’s life created in 2,000 pages after planning in 2004, first draft completion in 2014, and correction work for one and half more year. Readers can feel how much the author has tried to complete this work by challenging her own limit. Even the writer says, “It has been the time of learning the lesson from the characters which had lived ahead of me”. The writer does not just limit the human instincts, which are easily shaken by desire or interests, in the historical frame of Japanese colonial era. Instead, she described the characters in a diverse angle to come up with modern trend. Diverse characters like main characters of Soo Nam and Chae Ryung, their partners of Gang Hwee and Junpei, and the nobleman, Yoon Hyung Man, and his wife, Mrs. Gwak, and the nanny Sool, etc show the original natures of human in their own situations and they will be remembered by readers with strong impression even with low importance in the novel. 

프롤로그-아직 끝나지 않은 이야기

1부 떠나는 사람들(1920년~1939년)
가회동 저택l생일 선물l여덟 번째 아이l선망과 경멸l그들의 꿈l떠나는 사람들 1l떠나는 사람들 2l봄에서 여름까지l가을에서 겨울까지l테라오 히카리l자작의 딸l출렁이는 아침

2부 저물지 않는 시간(1939년~1954년)
깰 수 없는 꿈l샌프란시스코l삶으로의 횡단l안개의 삶l환한 밤l나무 없는 과수원l뉴욕l저주받은 집l여기에서 거기까지l저물지 않는 시간 1l저물지 않는 시간 2

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