Envy (Best Korean Novel List) (Best Korean Novel List)

Author: Qiu Xiaorui
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Publish Date: 2002-12-01
Features: The world is the farthest distance, when you're right beside me, yet I don't know I love you. Recommended by the Korea Culture & Tourism Ministry for all those waiting to confess their love. Bestselling novel of the year in Korea. Award-winning work by the representative of the Hankyoreh Literature Prize.
A beloved male teacher, respected and admired, dies tragically by drowning, leaving behind an unsolved mystery of life and death. A female college student who had a brief relationship with the teacher seven years ago always feels uneasy every July, though she doesn’t know why. On the 22nd of July seven years later, an unseen force compels her to revisit the rural village where she first met the teacher. This is when a love long buried for seven years is finally brought to light. It turns out he had secretly loved her all along but never dared to confess, which became the hidden reason behind his "accidental" death.