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My Beautiful Garden

Author

Sim Yun Kyung

Publisher

Hankyoreh Publishing Company

Categories

Literature & Fiction

Audience

Adult

Overseas Licensing

Keywords

  • #family
  • #relationships
  • #coming-of-age novel

Copyright Contact

Jeong Seonjae

  • Publication Date

    2013-11-18
  • No. of pages

    356
  • ISBN

    9788984317437
  • Dimensions

    153 * 224
Overview

This beautiful coming-of-age novel is the winner of the 7th Hankyoreh Literary Award and a steady seller of more than 100,000 copies.

Book Intro

My Beautiful Garden is a beautiful coming-of-age novel that has won the 7th Hankyoreh Literary Award and sold more than 100,000 copies. Sim Yun Kyung's first novel features sophisticated writing and provides readers with literary pleasure. The story revolves around the story of a family from 1977 to 1981. The protagonist Donggu who has been illiterate gradually opens his mind to the outside world with the help of his teacher Park. However, his foul-mouthed grandmother and cold-hearted father keep him from learning how to read and write.

"A grandmother who wields absolute power without limitation, a heartless father who uses violence as if it is a privilege given to the breadwinner, a mother who only grows thinner just like rotten tofu, and Donggu, who suffers from stammering dyslexia, is unable to communicate with his family. Unfortunately, his younger sister Youngju, who has served as a bridge between family and Donggu's teacher, the hope of his life, dies. After the sorrow and pain have swept him away, Donggu begins to step forward carefully with hope in his heart. Readers may be led to enter into the garden of their own mind, have a seat, stare at the scars of their childhood, and feel empathy and consolation thinking that people had no other choices back then". (School Library Journal)

About the Author

Sim Yun Kyung



(English) In 2002, she became the seventh winner of the Hankyoreh Literary prize for her autobiographical coming-of-age novel, My Beautiful Garden; thus began her writing career. In 2005, she received the 6th Muyeung Literary Prize for “The Moon’s Altar.” She is the author of the following full-length novels, Yi Hyeon’s Love Story, Love is Running, and Love Completes, Seol-I and her novel in serialization, The People of Seorabeol, and a children’s book, Report on Reconciliation.

 

(Japanese) 大学卒業後、しばらく会社員生活を経て、1998年から小説を書き始める。2002年、自伝的成長小説『私の美しい庭』で第7回ハンギョレ文学賞を受賞し、作品活動を開始。2005年『月の祭壇』で第6回ムヨン文学賞を受賞し、長編小説『イ・ヒョンの恋』、『徐羅伐(ソラバル)の人々』、『愛が走る』、『愛が満ちる』、童話『和解する報告書』などを発表した。

Award

The winner of the 2002 Hankyoreh Literary Award


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