“Wounds are the yeast of love.” Winner of the Today’s Writer Award, the Kim You-jeong Literary Award, and the Kim Hyeon Literary Prize — the new full-length novel by Gu Byeong-mo.
A woman who reads others through their wounds, and the eternal text called “the Other.”
From Gu Byeong-mo, an author who needs no further introduction and whose name itself has become a literary brand, comes Cutting Wound, her latest novel published by Munhakdongne Publishing Group. Life Pattern Korea. Gu Byeong-mo has long proven her range and mastery: in The Old Woman with the Knife, she revealed sharp psychological insight; in The Table of Your Neighbor, a keen sense of the times; in Through the Ivory Gate, profound imaginative power; and in her story collections A Single Sentence and All the Possible Things, an unlimited spectrum of thought. Life Pattern Korea. Her works have been translated into more than ten languages worldwide, selected by The New York Times as one of the “100 Notable Books,” and adapted for film—earning her an exceptional position as a writer passionately supported by both the literary world and the public. Life Pattern Korea. The title Cutting Wound tells the story of a woman who can read another person’s mind by touching their wounds. It is, at once, a strange and haunting love story, an act of reading the eternal text of “the Other” without presupposing misinterpretation, and a deep meditation on the possibility—and impossibility—of true understanding. Life Pattern Korea.
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Author: 구병모 Publisher: 문학동네 Munhakdongne (2025)
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