- Overview
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The book tells us a story about the dead resurrect in search of the one who killed them.
- Book Intro
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The winner of the 6th Korean Digital Writing Competition. Park Haik’s fiction is an anti-war mystery that deals with the mysterious phenomenon of victims who are revived after death to kill their perpetrators, raising a question of “What would be the ultimate judgment that a sinner must face?” This fiction is also the original text that the movie “Resurrected Victims” starring Kim Raewon and Kim Haesook is based on.
In the foreseeable future, the unfortunate victims of murder come back to life. The revived victims search for the perpetrators and kill them before becoming extinct. People call them “Resurrected Victims (RV)” and feel frightened at this unexplainable strange phenomenon. But at the same time, they become hopeful that the truth of the unfortunate death will be revealed.
Among those RVs, Myeongsook who was stabbed to death 7 years ago is quite different from others. The person she tries to attack is not the pickpocket that killed her but her own son. The National Intelligence Service (NIS) and the CIA, which have been trying to capture "unvanished" RVs for their research, suspect her son Seo Jinhong as the true criminal considering the fact that she attacks him. Seo Jinhong and Choi Myungsook are arrested and go through a series of psychological examinations and interrogations. In the meantime, the criminal who stabbed her is caught and enters the interrogation room, and the three of them come face to face. And the truths begin to surface one by one...
Park Haik’s Case Closed summons the old proverb “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.” and seriously questions the weight of the punishment that should be given to the sinner. What would be the ultimate judgment that those who kill others must face? What is the purpose of judgement? Reformation or punishment? Should we forgive the perpetrators? Although the ending of the novel may not be the ultimate answer to this question, the readers must mull over the issues and messages presented in the story.
- About the Author
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Park Haik
Park Haik started the career as a writer in 2008 with a novel A Man over the Screen, which won the new Writer’s Award for the Quarterly Mystery. In 2010, Park won the annual spring literary contest by Donyang Ilbo with a work The Story of a Red Spider Lily, and the Golden Pen Award selected by Korean Mystery Writer’s Association. Short story collections Park has participated include The Short Korean Mystery Thriller Collection and 12 People, 12 Colors. Novels Park has written include Case Closed and the Seonam Women’s High School Detective Club series including The Afterclass Mystery and Detectives Are Not Allowed to Have Relationships. Park won the Korean Best Mystery Literature Award with Detectives Are Not Allowed to Have Relationships in 2015. Park was listed in the 2nd place for “Young Promising Writers Who Will Become the Future of Korean Novels” in the following year.