- Overview
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Aro and the Complete World is the story of Aro, who finds a strange book in the library and is taken to another dimension, "the Complete World," where she begins a stunning adventure.
- Book Intro
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* New fantasy for upper-level elementary school students!**
This adventure story features an ordinary girl, Aro who gets transported inside a book and travels through twelve countries on a quest to find a copy of a book that tells the story of the "Complete World." The writer’s imagination paints a picture of twelve countries that are each distinctive and fascinating. In addition, the writer gives birth to unique characters whose internal minds are captured in meticulous detail.
Aro is just an ordinary girl, like any other children, but through this adventure of constant challenges, she grows. Aro's inner psychology as she goes through these rough adventures is brought out in the words and rich symbolism of the writer. The page-turning plot and marvelous events taking place make reading 500 pages an easy task. Aro and the Complete World is rare work, showing the literary achievement of Korean fantasy.
Aro becomes the "Reader" the moment she picks up an old book called "The Story of the CompleteWorld" in the library. The "Reader" is the person who will protect the order and peace of the twelve nations that exist in the Complete World. Not having been read by a Reader for a long time, this world was in despair and all balance had been shattered. But now, finally, the Reader has arrived and just by reading "The Story of the Complete World," the Reader can restore everything back to normal. But not everyone welcomes the savior from the outside world. Yuhare, the supreme wise man of the Complete World cannot trust the Reader from an incomplete world and he is dissatisfied that the fate of the twelve nations in the hands of "Reader." So he plans a conspiracy that goes against the order of the World. The day before the Reader decides to read the book, he steals it. When the book that will enable Aro to return to her incomplete world disappears, she must meet and collect copies of the first beings of the twelve nations with the story of the Complete World. Aro sets off on an exciting adventure that she could never have imagined.
Together with Mole, the story-collector, and Misolfa, a kid from the singing country, Aro voyages through various dangers to collect the copies from twelve countries. She travels through the wonderful countries on her journey: as a starry country of magic and knowledge, a floating city, a country of color, a singing country of music, an architectural city with mysterious spaces, a masked country of night and darkness, a mountainous country of animals, and more. In the meantime, Yuhare starts a war that is going to divide the twelve countries. Will Aro, who has suddenly became the "Reader," be able to restore order to the Complete World and return to the incomplete world in which we live?
- About the Author
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Kim HyeJin
Kim Hye-Jin was born in the summer of 1979. She began writing when she won the Daesan Creation Fund with her story Aro and the Complete World. The more she wrote, the more she wanted to accomplish, so now she cannot live at all without writing. When she finds stories hiding somewhere inside of her, ready to fly away like a feather if she doesn't catch them, she feels pleasure. Kim went to England to learn drawing simply because she liked to draw and had so much to learn. Drawing makes her happy, just like writing, so she continues to draw. One day she realized that she was living the life she had wanted to live - the life where she could write and draw - and the epiphany surprised her. In addition to the Story of the Complete World trilogy, Kim has also written a story about high school students, Proust Club and Today's To-Do Workshop, and translated Is This College? and The Most Beautiful Place in the World into Korean.
- Award
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Winner of Daesan Creative Fund
- Recommendation
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Children Culture Promotion Society, Recommended book Gyeonggi-do School Librarian Association, Recommended book
- Selection
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Korea Children Literature Writer Association, Great Book List