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192 pages, Hardcover
First published June 25, 2010
Just don't follow your shadow, he said. You have to be careful not to follow, even if it does rise.
Do you know what a slum is, Eungo?
Something to do with being poor?
I looked it up in a dictionary.
What did it say?
An area in a ity where poor people live. Mujae looked at me. They say the area around here is a slum.
Who?
The papers, and people.
Slum?
It's a little odd, isn't it?
It is odd.
Slum.
Slum.
We sat there repeating the word for a while, and then I said, I've heard the word, of course, but I'd never thought of this place as a slum.
My home was described in the news as 'a slum'. This was an outside view; I wrote my novel to show it from the inside