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#SleepingStories #BedtimeNovels #ManReadingBooks The end of the day, a quiet night. This is 'Danjam,' an audiobook channel that leads you into deep stories, offering a day with books. 🛏️ Before falling asleep, 🚶‍♀️ Time for a solitary emotional stroll, 🎧 When your eyes want to rest but your heart craves a story— Please stop by anytime. The work to be read this time is the short story "Who Is Beside Us Right Now?" by author Shin Kyung-sook. 😊 Enjoy the listening experience. [Shin Kyung-sook — A Writer Who Wrote the Era with Inner Language] The Writer's Life — From the Factory to Literature Shin Kyung-sook (born January 1963) was born in Jeongeup, Jeollabuk-do. At the age of fifteen, she moved to Seoul and attended the special industrial class at Yeongdeungpo Girls' High School, where she met teacher Choi Hong-yi and began her literature studies. The time spent working at an electric company in the Guro Industrial Complex while attending a special industrial class during the final years of the military regime became the foundation for her later autobiographical novel, *The Isolated Room*. Those hours spent in the factory during the day and in the classroom at night became the primal experiences that shaped author Shin Kyung-sook's literary sensibility. Afterward, she entered the Department of Creative Writing at Seoul Arts University and made her literary debut at the age of twenty-two in 1985, winning the New Writer's Award for her novella "Winter Fable" in *Munye Jungang*. However, she was not a particularly prominent writer immediately after her debut and even worked as a scriptwriter for a music program at a broadcasting station. A Leap as a Writer — From The Place Where the Organ Was to Please Look After Mom In 1993, she published the novel *The Place Where the Organ Was*, receiving favorable reviews from critics and readers alike, catapulting her to instant stardom. Her delicate sensibility and unique writing style captivated the hearts of readers at once. Subsequently, in 1995, she published the autobiographical novel *The Isolated Room*. This work, which quietly unfolds the life of a native of Jeongeup, Jeollabuk-do—who lived in her hometown until middle school before moving abroad to attend Yeongdeungpo Girls' High School, a special vocational high school—and eventually becoming a writer after majoring in Creative Writing in college, demonstrated the extent to which an individual's story can carry weight as a literary work. The Isolated Room is a work that confirms that a micro-narrative centered on "I" can be reduced to the collective memory of those who lived through the same era as the individual; it received praise as "the greatest harvest recently achieved by our literature, opening up the possibility of a new realism." And in 2008, Shin Kyung-sook achieved an unprecedented feat in the history of Korean literature. Serialized in Changjak & Bipyeong from the winter of 2007 to the summer of 2008 and receiving an enthusiastic response, Please Look After Mom became a million-seller with translation rights sold to 33 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and Poland. It was selected as a New York Times bestseller and one of Amazon.com's "Top 10 Books of the Year" (Literature category), opening new horizons for Korean literature amidst favorable reviews from media around the world. Representative Works Published short story collections Winter Fable*, *The Potato Eaters*, and *Strawberry Field*; novels *The Train Leaves at 7*, *Deep Sorrow*, *The Isolated Room*, and *Violet*; a collection of short stories *J's Story*; and essay collections *Beautiful Shade and *Sleep, My Sorrow*. The author also boasts an impressive list of awards. Having won the Hyundai Literature Prize in 1995, the Manhae Literature Prize in 1996, the Dongin Literature Prize in 1997, the Yi Sang Literature Prize in 2001, and the French Prize for Unnoticed Works in 2009, she has established herself as a widely recognized author both at home and abroad. Style and Literary World — A Deep Gaze Toward the Inner Self Shin Kyung-sook's novels always evoke a faint nostalgia within the reader. Landscapes that brushed past in the deep and intimate darkness of a bygone era are suddenly replayed while reading her novels, surfacing before one's eyes like a flash of light. She has consistently garnered the attention of critics and readers alike for her deep gaze toward the human psyche, sentences where symbolism and metaphor shine, and sophisticated and moving narratives. Stylistically, she demonstrates various unique approaches. It is characterized by the repetitive alternation of tenses and tense narration; in *Please Look After Mom*, the narrator presented an experimental attempt to address characters using second-person pronouns such as "you" and "you (plural)." A significant number of readers stated that they felt a sense of guilt, as if the novel were judging them, which is attribut...