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Han Kangis a private person.
They have actually been divorced for years.
A desolate boundary, she reflects, had formed between the world and me.
Hans characters make a habit of coming apart.
InWe Do Not Part,this collapse is the outward manifestation of an opaque inner distress.
Kyungha once led a more stable existence.
In the midst of her despair, Kyungha receives a text message from her old friend.
Yet this approach no longer seems sufficient for Han.
When faced with the true horror of her subject, she feels that she turned away.
We Do Not Partseems like an attempt to look this past head-on.
Are these ghosts, hallucinations, memories?
Or is it Kyungha, dead in the blizzard or in a lonely apartment, whose spirit has wandered?
Han keeps the question open, the first of many unsettled boundaries that she keenly balances throughout the novel.
In the face of such knowledge, Kyunghas breakdown comes to seem almost reasonable.
No wonder Kyungha attempted to erect that boundary around herself.
I dont want to open it, she says of Inseons collection.
Im not the least bit curious.
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