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Park Dong-hyuk, a student, and Chae Yeong-sin, a young woman of fierce purpose, leave Seoul in the early 1930s to teach the poor children and farmers of the countryside to read and to organize. Sim Hun's prizewinning novel joins their quiet love to the hard work of the Rural Enlightenment movement under colonial rule. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.