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Smozhet li chelovek ostatsya soboy, kogda ot ego mira ne ostalos pochti nichego? Kak perezhit odinochestvo, esli ono stalo privychnym, a proshloe edinstvennoy realnostyu?Istoriya poslednego pastukha eto medlennoe proshchanie s tem, chto nevozmozhno uderzhat: s lyudmi, ischeznuvshimi derevnyami i nevozvratnym vremenem. Zdes, sredi teplogo dykhaniya korovy i zvuka vetra v pustykh polyakh, pamyat stanovitsya edinstvennym sputnikom, a kazhdaya treshchina v dushe otzyvaetsya ekhom davno ushedshikh let."Posledniy pastukh" sbornik rasskazov vydayushchegosya yuzhnokoreyskogo pisatelya KHyen Kiyena o pamyati, utrate i zhizni na perelome epokh. Odin iz vazhneyshikh prozaikov sovremennoy Korei, on posvyatil bolee soroka let literature i byl dvazhdy udostoen natsionalnykh premiy za vklad v kulturu.