This novel weaves together the painful history of this land and the lives of its people, centered around the old Hackberry tree ‘Halmae’ that sprouted from the death of a single bird and endured six centuries. It conveys the profound realization that humans and nature, life and death, cannot be separate, and that all beings circulate within a vast web of interconnected fate. It poses a weighty yet beautiful question about the essence of existence to us living in an era of climate crisis and ecological destruction.

Moreover, Hwang Seog-yeong’s uniquely powerful pen and overwhelming narrative instantly transport the reader across time and space to vividly breathing, turbulent historical scenes. It confirms that the world a novel can capture is this vast—encompassing not only the tragic history of the Korean Peninsula, but also everything from the fluttering of nameless grasshoppers to the breath of the tidal flats.

• Original Title : 할매
• 224 pages
• ISBN : 9788936439880
• Hardcover

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