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Heo Sung, a Seoul lawyer, gives up his career and goes to a poor farming village to lift its people, while his wife in the city falls into an affair that his absence helps to start. Yi Kwang-su's serial of 1932 sets the nationalist hope of the countryside against the temptations of the capital. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.

Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.