ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about a man called Pak Hun, who, on morning mist, headed for the hill where his ancestral graves were. When Hun was a child, he had climbed the hill to pick azaleas at Maiden Rock. It really had looked like a young woman kneeling at the brink of the cliff. As evening approached, Hun returned home to find Ojaknyo, who, starting the fire in the kitchen. This is one of the stories written by the most beloved and respected Korean writer Hwang Sun-won in this extraordinary novel on his own experiences in his North Korean home village between the end of World War II and the eve of the Korean War when Korea had been divided into North and South by its two "liberators" - the United States and the Soviet Union. The story, which is the Soviet-backed communist party, using the promise of land reform, sets people at each other's throat.
