Distant Sea

Mikho, a professor of German literature, is going to the USA to participate in a symposium. By coincidence, her first love, Joseph, lives in New York. For the first time in a long while, they arrange to meet. Then, forty years ago, a young seminarian teaching at the cathedral and a high school girl fell in love with each other. But the young Mikho, receiving an unexpected confession from Joseph, hurriedly ran away. This is where their paths diverged. The new novel by Kon Jiyeon is a story about the past, which has left too many questions. Summer vacation, unhealed wounds, and the last meeting — all of this must be revisited to overcome the pain and allow love to bloom again. Can the raging endless sea become a serene and gentle surface? In the center of New York, the puzzles of the past will finally come together…