We do not part

In her biggest book since One morning in December, Kyungha receives a message from her friend Inseon saying she has been hospitalized in Seoul and asking that Kyungha join her urgently.;The two women have last seen each other over a year before, on Jeju Island, where Inseon lives and where, two days before this reunion, she has injured herself chopping wood.;Airlifted to Seoul for an operation, Inseon has had to leave behind her pet bird. Bedridden, she begs Kyungha to take the first plane to Jeju to save the animal.;A snowstorm hits the island when Kyungha arrives.;She must reach Inseon's house at all costs, but the icy wind and snow squalls slow her down as night begins to fall.;She wonders if she will arrive in time to save Inseon''s bird--or even survive the terrible cold that envelops her with every step.;Lost in a world of snow, she doesn''t yet suspect the vertiginous plunge into the darkness which awaits her at her friend''s house. There, the long-buried story of Inseon''s family surges into light, in dreams and memories passed from mother to daughter, and in the archive painstakingly assembled at the house, documenting a terrible massacre on the island.;