Behind Five Willows

Behind Five Willows

Author: June Hur Listening Length: 8h 35m
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From the New York Times-bestselling author of A Crane Among Wolves comes a warm and romantic homage to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice set in historical Korea, about a reader and a writer who secretly fight against government book banning and find themselves irresistibly drawn together. As the dutiful second-eldest ...

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Seojun found himself in a strange mood after the goblin-girl’s departure.

He tried not to think of her, but his thoughts kept straying. His writing had brought her joy, a remark that had induced the most unsettling sensation in him. Was it simply enough for one’s writing to bring delight? To lighten the burden of another for a moment’s time?

No. He forbade himself from indulging in such thoughts.

He would keep his vow, to never again pick up the brush to write fiction.