Seong Seok-je: In the Shade of the Oleander

"A Bilingual Edition of a Representative Korean Novel." Seong Seok-je’s In the Shade of the Oleander can be described as a modern-day version of the novel Mangbuseok (The Stone That Waits for Her Husband). The woman married her husband, a college student, when she was twenty. A year after their marriage, war broke out, and her husband volunteered to enlist as a student soldier.