Sahan (Novel)

Sahan returns to Earth after being lost in space—only a year has passed for him, but eleven have gone by on Earth. He sets foot in his hometown expecting nothing; there is no family, no friend waiting. With nowhere to anchor himself, he braces for a life adrift, much like the days he spent floating in an emergency escape pod across a vast, indifferent space. Then, unexpectedly, he crosses paths with Heegeon—the little boy from next-door he once knew, now his equal in age. “You were alive.. You *are* alive, and you didn’t contact me even once..” The resentment and sorrow contained in those words were heavier than his body ever could be. *That little dust of a boy you once had been. You never ceased to amaze me with those raw emotions and that bottomless energy.* I raised my aching arm and ran it gently along his broad back. Then I knew—or rather, it finally sank in. Ten years really had gone from my life. “You were alive, you son of a bitch…” And perhaps the sense of loss *I* should have felt had been trapped inside him all this time. **Original Novel:** , **Official English:**.