- Overview
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The new full-length novel by Park Ju-yeong, winner of the Writer of Today Award and the Honbul Literary Award.
- Book Intro
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Children of the Forest is the new full-length novel by Park Ju-yeong, the winner of the Writer of Today Award for White Paper on the Unemployed Life and the Honbul Literary Award for Snow on a Silent Night. Park, who has told stories about the lives, love, and breakups of young people of our time, especially women, in a calm and charismatic tone in works such as A History of Broken Hearts and Picture Book of Anarchists, has returned with a story about a deep sense of loss that cannot ever be erased.
A hidden truth and inverted fates. A day of eternity is not yet over.
Lee Yeong-wu loses hope after losing his younger brother in a mysterious case of disappearance. Eun Hye-ju becomes a detective specializing in unsolved cases after her best friend is kidnapped and murdered. Jo Nam-guk, who is accused of being the culprit, is about to be released from prison after serving twenty years. These three characters, upon enduring their own difficult and precarious circumstances, find themselves in an unexpected reunion when the body of Lee Yeong-chae, who disappeared twenty years ago at the age of seven, is discovered. A full-blown lyrical mystery unfolds when the three, with their own secrets to hide, finally come face to face with one another. Or is it a hard-boiled love story?
- About the Author
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Park Ju Young