- Overview
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This book well describes the desire for growth and the twinge the protagonists feel as the children of a dwarf, featuring the school society, the everyday affairs, and the boys’ deviation.
- Book Intro
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Hap and Che, the winner of the 8th Sakyejul Literary Award, unfolds a cheerful story that portrays the adolescents’ concern about their appearance, particularly one about the height of two brothers.
Hap and Che, the identical twins who are the smallest and second smallest in their class but have drastically different characters, are children of their father who is a ‘dwarf’ entertaining audiences by rolling a ball. At the age when they have a great concern about their height, the existence of their dwarf father bodes them at a genetic disadvantage. In this society where even an ordinary man would suffer from one or two complexes, the physical deformity of Hap and Che as the offspring of a ‘dwarf’ father bothers them as an uncomfortable reality which they would not be able to overcome without joining forces. One day, Che encounters a self-styled ‘Great Master Gye’ who claims to have cultivated himself in Gyeryong Mountain at the mineral spring in the neighborhood and acquires a ‘secret method’ to grow taller. He then packs up with Hap to go to Gyeryong Mountain for training. Hap and Che, who have to train themselves for 33 days in the ‘Brother Cave.’ Will they patiently go through the training during the period?
- About the Author
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Park Ji Ri
Park Jiri (F) was born in Haenam in 1985 and studied Historical Contents at Sangmyung University. At the age of 25, she won the 8th Sakyejul Literary Award with Combine (2010) and began her career as a writer. She also won the Red Award Poetry and the Korea Book Awards with The Evil Origin of Darwin's Spirit in 2016. She has also written About the MAN Who Made an Unexpected Move During the 3rd Interview (2017), Seventeen Seventeen (2015), Yangchundan's College Tour (2014), Manhole (2012). She passed away in 2016.