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My Brilliant Life

Author

Kim Aeran

Publisher

Changbi Publishers, Inc.

Categories

Literature & Fiction

Audience

Adult

Overseas Licensing

Japanese,French,Chinese(Simplified),Chinese(Traditional),Vietnamese,German,Russian

Keywords

  • #Novel adapted into film
  • #Korean literature
  • #incurable disease

Copyright Contact

Joseph Lee

  • Publication Date

    2011-06-20
  • No. of pages

    356
  • ISBN

    9788936433871
  • Dimensions

    145 * 210
Overview

This novel is about the youngest parents and the oldest son talks about youth and love with a dazzling story.

Book Intro

In a village where a tourist complex has been built, a 17-year-old couple happens to have a child despite having no idea of what kinds of adults they will become. This young couple manages to have a family with anxiety and excitement in their minds, and their son Areum grows up receiving love and affection and into a brave and bright boy. But before he becomes a full-grown adult, he is diagnosed with progeria, a disorder that causes a child’s body to age more quickly.

Areum, who has the young heart of a 17-year-old boy but the body of a man older than his parents, loves reading and writing. His only friend is a sixty-year-old man in the neighborhood. Having to endure a time that feels painfully long with pain and death always at his side, Areum naturally learns about life and develops his own thoughts about it. Though it centers on progeria, an unusual disorder, this novel does not portray Areum’s life in a miserable way. Rather, it focuses on capturing the brilliant moments in life and reflecting sincerely on the universal values of life and time.

Aerum decides to write a story about his parent’s relationship, romance, and the event of his birth, and he gives this story to his parents on his 18th birthday. Based on his memories blended with his imagination and exaggeration, Areum has created a novel by himself. This act of writing a novel for a day that he may not be able to celebrate is an effort to bring back his parent’s youth that has been lost and to create something with the language and sensitivity that he has developed in the time he spent at home alone instead of being at school. Areum’s novel also reflects his own wish to make his life become alive in the story.

About the Author

Kim Aeran



Born in 1980 in Incheon, Kim Ae-ran studied playwriting (BFA) at the Korean National University of Arts. She received the 1st Daesan Literary Prize in Fiction with her short story The House Where One Does Not Knock, which was published in The Quarterly Changbi in 2003. In 2005, she received awards from the Daesan Foundation Fund and the 38th Hankook Ilbo Literary Prize.

Award

Liberaturprei Award, 2018, Nomination


Selection

School Library Journal Book Recommendation Council, 2012, Recommended Book


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