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Asia Publishers presents some of the very best modern Korean literature to readers worldwide through its new Korean literature series . We are proud and happy to offer it in the most authoritative translation by renowned translators of Korean literature. We hope that this series helps to build solid bridges between citizens of the world and Koreans through a rich in-depth understanding of Korea. I had given up hope on the baby, and it was only my mother-in-law’s devotion that saved his life. I wondered if such a creature could even suckle, but he nursed at my breast with such an unbelievable energy that it sometimes frightened me. It occurred to me that he wasn’t human and I pushed him away onto the floor. My whole body trembled and the well of hatred I’d kept pent up inside me for the sake of my child would surge like a fountain. I ground my teeth in rage day and night, dreaming of knifing them to death. I would catch their blood in my hands as it spilled out of their sticky black skin, and show it to my neighbors. The only thing that kept me alive then was my hatred and the desire for revenge that burned in my heart.