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The text centers on Phyllis watching her daughter-in-law’s struggle in the fields, while family memories of war, loss, and injury shape her worries. Domestic preparations for winter preservation blend with the tension of aging, health problems, and stalled repairs, underscoring love, endurance, and social pressure in an oppressed world.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Also by Sophie Ward  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Love and Other Thought Experiments The Schoolhouse  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>OUR BETTER NATURES  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Sophie Ward  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>CORSAIR  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>First published in Great Britain in 2026 by Corsair Copyright © Sophie Ward, 2026 The moral right of the author has been asserted.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>All characters and events in this publication, other than those clearly in the public domain, are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>All rights reserved.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>A CIP catalogue record for this book  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>is available from the British Library.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>ISBN: 978-1-4721-5635-8  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Corsair An imprint of Little, Brown Book Group Carmelite House  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>50 Victoria Embankment London EC4Y 0DZ  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>The authorised representative in the EEA is Hachette Ireland  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>8 Castlecourt Centre Dublin 15, D15 XTP3, Ireland (email: [info@hbgi.ie](info@hbgi.ie))  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>An Hachette UK Company  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>[www.hachette.co.uk](www.hachette.co.uk)[ ](www.hachette.co.uk)[www.littlebrown.co.uk](www.littlebrown.co.uk)[ ](www.littlebrown.co.uk)[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Contents  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Seodaemun: The West Gate  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Chapter1: Phyllis  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Chapter2: Andrea  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Chapter3: Muriel  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Chapter4: Phyllis  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Chapter5: Andrea  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Chapter6: Muriel  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Chapter7: Phyllis  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Chapter8: Andrea  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Seodaemun: The West Gate  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Chapter9: Muriel  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Chapter10: Phyllis  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Chapter11: Andrea  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Chapter12: Muriel  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Chapter13: Phyllis  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Chapter14: Andrea  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Chapter15: Muriel  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Chapter16: Phyllis  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Chapter17: Andrea  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Seodaemun: The West Gate  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Chapter18: Muriel  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Chapter19: Phyllis  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Chapter20: Andrea  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Chapter21: Muriel  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Chapter22: Phyllis  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Seodaemun: The West Gate  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Bibliography  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Credits  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Acknowledgements  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>To our mothers and grandmothers, Alexandra, Sybil, Winifred, Kyong Sue, Jaong Suk, and Hattie  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>SEODAEMUN  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>The West Gate  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>1975  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>The prison guards press the hot iron against his back, and the scent of barbecued flesh fills his airways as he fights for breath. The patients at the sanatorium didn’t smell so good when their brains were fried. They weren’t any more likely to confess and there was nothing to show for their suffering except confusion. In that way at least, prison is better than hospital arrest – there is less pretence that he is going to be cured. He supposes the only cure the government can prescribe for his crimes is execution, but he is no longer condemned.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>He thinks of the workers harvesting rice they are forbidden to eat while the sun beats down upon them. He thinks how rice is for the people. This is what he wished to say with his poetry and for such thoughts he stands accused of aiding the enemy. It does not help his case when he says that the government is the enemy and it is they who must be arrested. Guilty by his own admission.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>On the other side of the prison gates, his son runs between the trees while his wife weeps. He cannot see them and has no way to let them know they live within him.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>It is not too late. There is always the possibility of love, and the oppressed and the oppressor can be forgiven. Violent resistance is necessary. Returned to his cement walls, he can resist as nature has taught him. He rakes his hand along the dirt that gathers in the corners of his cell and makes a fist.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>CHAPTER 1  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Phyllis  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>1971  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Phyllis watched from the kitchen window as her daughter-in-law stepped over the rolls of dirt. The corn grew close to the back of the house, and Phyllis saw the woman frown and cross the ditches that bordered the field. 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