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Shoot Me in the Heart

Author

Jeong Youjeong

Publisher

EunHaeng NaMu Publishing Co., Ltd.

Categories

Literature & Fiction

Audience

Adult

Overseas Licensing

Keywords

  • #the youth
  • #twenties
  • #courage
  • #sympathy
  • #comfort

Copyright Contact

Kim Seohae

  • Publication Date

    2009-05-20
  • No. of pages

    348
  • ISBN

    9788956602998
  • Dimensions

    150 * 210
Overview

Shoot Me in the Heart, the 5th World Literature Award winner, is an emotionally powerful story that portrays untiring youth with dynamic narratives.

Book Intro

Jeong Youjeong’s novel depicts a character named Sumyeong who has run away from the world out of fear and locked himself in his own world. Sumyeong was discharged from the hospital, but gets in trouble in just a few days. Then he is involuntarily hospitalized by his father who says to him that “you won’t be able to leave there before your death.” In Suri Hope Hospital, Sumyeong gets swayed by Seungmin who enters the hospital on the same day and causes many ups and downs in his life, either by good or bad luck.

Sumyeong and Seungmin are both in their mid-twenty’s. But they are like opposite poles. Sumyeong who has tried to find a refuge within himself manages to open his mind to the outside world as he gets close to Seungmin who has struggled to go out to the world. “Sometimes, I wonder who you really are. Not the one who hides oneself or who endures all, but the one who deals with one’s own life. Are you that kind of person?” Seungmin tells Sumyeong, as though the author encourages especially the young readers who have fallen in despair to confront the harsh world with confidence. Then Seungmin shows how to do it for Sumyeong who has not been ready to face the world. Then he says that even though the ending has already been decided, even though he is sure to be defeated, he must go and stand against the world. For it is what life is.

Throughout their lives, Sumyeong has been manipulated by the voices of others against his will, and Seungmin has been messed up by money and greed. And now Seungmin tries to awaken Sumyeong who has been stuck in a rut, conforming to the system, and prompts him to rebel against the absurdities of life. The author Jeong tells her readers that there is a breakthrough, and we have to find it ourselves and stand on our own legs, through the lives of Sumyeong and Seungmin who mirror most of us.

We have to go through one of the most intense moments in life in our twenties, and must keep following the sea of stars which exist in the unknown future. Shoot Me in the Heart encourages the readers not to hide or run away but to open their mind and look into the gunpoint called life. In the end, Seungmin flies to the sea of stars as he has hoped after making a strenuous effort to find his true self, and Sumyeong runs at full speed to face the world pointing a gun at him.

About the Author

Jeong Youjeong



(English) Jeong Youjeong is a novelist who won the first Segye Young Adults Literary Award for My Life's Spring Camp, and the fifth Segye Literature Award for Shoot Me in the Heart. Her following novels, Seven Years of Darkness, 28, and The Good Son have been selected as Book of the Year by different bookstores and newspapers. Read and loved by international readers, her books have been translated into more than 20 languages including English, French, German, Finnish, Chinese, Japanese, and Portuguese. She has also published collections of her essays: Jeong You Jeong’s Fantasy Roaming of Himalayas, and Stories about Stories-telling. In 2019, she published her latest novel, Jinyi, Jini.

 

(Japanese) 長編小説『人生のスプリングキャンプ』で第1回世界青少年文学賞を、『私の心臓を撃て』で第5回世界文学賞を受賞。長編小説『7年の夜』、『28』、『種の起源』は主要メディアや書店で「今年の本」に選ばれ、大きな話題を集めた。英米圏をはじめ、フランス、ドイツ、日本など海外20カ国以上で翻訳出版され、多くの読者に愛されている。他にもエッセイ『チョン・ユジョンのヒマラヤ幻想放浪』、『チョン・ユジョン物語を語る』がある。2019年に長編『ジニ、ジニ』を出版し、2021年に新作『完全な幸福』を出版した。

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