The Snowy Road = 눈길

by Yi Chong-Jun, Yi Ch'ŏngjun, Hyun-Jae Yee Sallee (Translator)

A poignant, radiant tale of a mother's ceaseless devotion to her son, The Snowy Road is the story of a family that loses everything due to one son's abuse of alcohol. This tragedy does not shake the mother's resolve to continue to work hard for her one remaining son, making his happiness her sole goal in life. The son behaves contemptuously, though, oblivious to his mother's sacrifice, until the day he learns of her long walk home along a snowy mountain road years before when he left home.
Part of the Modern Korean Short Stories Series.

149 pages, Hardcover

First published May 15, 2005

About the author

See: 이청준


Yi Chong-jun (This is the preferred Romanization per LTI Korea) was a prominent South Korean novelist. Throughout his four decade-long career, Lee wrote more than 100 short stories, 13 novels. He died from lung cancer at the age of 68 on July 31, 2008.