Fragility of human existence, inexorable скоротечность taken to each of us earthly time, impossibility to get to the inner world of other man and him to the end to understand - all of it we feel in plots 26 short stories entering this book. Every history is painted by a humour, by ironical, but sympathetic attitude toward a man and his problems and gives a hope on that great deal in our life it is possible to change to the best, if more attentive to listen to itself. Син Кенсук was born in 1963 in peasant family. Her childhood was on the period of the so-called "economic miracle" of South Korea, happening after destructive Korean war 1950-1953 From young years worked in a factory, where became the witness of rebelling of worker, that shocked South Korea. In youth future authoress and participated in protests and mass meeting and outlived an epoch frightful political shocks and repressions. In the works an author often represents trauma those events generation. Син Кенсук is a bright representative of modern south Korean literature. Her work complete lyricism and thin психологизма, the south Korean and foreign critics estimate highly, and this confession was expressed in that she became the first in the world woman that awarded with prestige reward - Asian Букера (Man Asian Literary Prize).