The Distant Garden

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The ledger line read: Bae, Hyun-woo. Debt: 1,400 won. Status: Condemned. The ink on the page was not dry, but wet, a viscous black that smelled of iron and old rain. Hyun-woo Bae stood in the archive of the Bae estate, a place that existed in the high desert of the Korean countryside, where the wind scoured the earth like a file against a blade. He was thirty-two, a mid-level archivist whose...

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