The Interest of Love
Korean Title: 사랑의 이해
Author: Lee Hyuk-jin
Publisher: Mineumsa
ISBN: 9788937439933
Paperback | 356 pages | 135*205mm | 375g
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About This Book
Winner of the 2016 Hankyoreh Literary Award, this novel by Lee Hyuk-jin follows four young office workers—Sang-su, Su-yeong, Jong-hyeon, and Mi-gyeong—who find themselves entangled in workplace romances.
Glances and emotions are exchanged freely, yet what follows are comparisons of salary, family background, apartments, and cars. These symbols of capital—credentials for some, sources of insecurity for others—prevent their deepest feelings and desires from being honestly shared. Wanting to understand one another, yet trapped within the boundaries of personal interests, the love lives of these four young people drift without finding a clear direction.
While The Sunken Boat, the author's debut novel and winner of the Hankyoreh Literary Award, exposed the contradictions and absurdities of corporate life by asking what a company truly is, The Interest of Love turns its attention to how class, embodied by the workplace, shapes every corner of our lives—especially love. It portrays the irony of romantic relationships: we long to understand one another more deeply than anyone else, yet end up scrutinizing each other's circumstances and interests more closely than anyone else. Must reason and passion remain forever at odds in the enduring duality of love?
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