“People have lost something important they took for granted, and that loss leaves them devastated.”

— Kyung-sook Shin

On the aftermath of the Korean War in “Kyung-Sook Shin: 'In my 20s I lived through an era of terrible political events and suspicious deaths'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/07/kyung-sook-shin-south-korea-interview in The Guardian (2014 Jun 7)

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