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Mokdoryeong: The Tree Upon the Waters
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 62
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.15 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This is not simply a story about a child who survived a flood.
Before the great waters came, a child lived beneath a tree.
The people said he had no father. But the child knew otherwise. The tree gave him shade, warned him through its trembling leaves, and kept its roots deep in the earth. When the waters rose and the village became water, the tree did not fall. It lowered itself.
On the back of the tree, the child crossed the flood.
There, upon the waters, he noticed what others might have missed: ants clinging to a scrap of wood, mosquitoes making a thin sound from a sinking leaf, and another child floating on a broken door plank.
But being carried is not always easy to bear.
As the waters recede and a new land begins, one boy must face the truth that he did not survive by his own strength. Seeds, water, hands, and memory quietly reveal what words tried to hide.
Mokdoryeong: The Tree Upon the Waters is a literary retelling of a Korean flood tale about a tree that became a father's back, a child who recognized what was still alive, and the difficult grace of remembering that none of us crosses alone.
A quiet, mythic retelling for readers who love folktales, literary fairy tales, Korean mythology, and stories of survival, memory, and renewal.
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