- Overview
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This story about hair displays the issue of human rights of adolescents regarding the hairstyle regulations at school, the family history of the protagonist Ilho, and our society and history.
- Book Intro
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The book is the winner of the 6th Sakyejul Literary Award. When you start to read the book, the intricate story about hair begins. This story of hair displays the issue of human rights of adolescents regarding hairstyle regulations at school, the family history of the protagonist Ilho, and our society and history. This excellent novel depicts the story of boys using an energetic language that entertains with its funny episodes, characters who are ordinary at first sight but end up being unique, and flavored and neat prose plus humor.
The protagonist of the book, Ilho seems to be too ordinary to become a hero. But in front of him is waiting a long fight for defending hair. It is not mere hair of his but the hair of the 17-year-olds living in the Republic of Korea. When the model student Ilho starts to stage the one-man protest to rebel against the hairstyle regulation, his grandfather who hasn’t joined in a fight begins a lonely struggle.
The author says she wanted to represent everyone who has done their best to live in this country through the grandfather who puts up a fight that goes side by side with that of Ilho. This novel displays not only the journey taken by Ilho who returns to his little altered position after standing against the outside world for the first time in his life but our society and historical consciousness.
- About the Author
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Kim Hae Won
Kim Haewon won the annual spring literary contest by Hankook Ilbo with Story of a Long Chair in the Station in 2000. In 2003, Kim won the 11th MBC Creative Children’s Story Award with Magpie Inn in Spider Village. Kim also won the 6th Four Season Literary Award with Seventeen-year-old's Hair. Currently, Kim works in a children’s story creation group at ‘People Creating Children’s Books’, and tries to make good books at ‘Playground Making Children’s Books.’ Books Kim has written include Philosophy Story for Thinking Children, Whale Mural, Why Are You Crying, Frog? and I Want My Birthyear to be the Elephant Year, Are We Family? (co-authorship).
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- Bestseller Rank
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