- Overview
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A sci-fi mystery novel incorporating the old Silla-era Korean folk song "Changiparanga."
- Book Intro
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(English) Gipa
This work incorporates science fiction with elements from the old Korean folk song "Changiparanga" to tell a sci-fi mystery story that focuses on the fact that Gipa, a well-known Silla-era warrior, can be deduced to be a doctor or even a monk depending on the interpretation. The setting for the story is a near-future world with cyborgs and androids where a chase takes place in the wreck of a space cruiser destroyed by an unexpected meteorite impact. As the distance closes between Gipa, a hero who has saved lives, and the protagonist, who is trying to rescue Gipa, the truth of the wreck and the reality of the hero gradually emerge.
The work is an entertainment novel with excellent twists, and at the same time, it is also a serious thought experiment that makes readers ponder humanity and inhumanity. The elaborate narrative composition, full of twist after twist, is not only for fun and entertainment. The twists, placed at just the right moments, break down the boundary between the perception of good and evil, and even propose questions about what actually can be considered good or evil.
(French) Kipa
Kipa est une œuvre qui a associé le chant populaire coréeen de l’époque Silla à la science-fiction. Kipa, un hwarang (l’élite de l’armée de l’époque Silla) très connu, peut être considéré comme médecin ou moine bouddhiste selon les lecteurs. Il est à la fois un roman de mystère et un roman policier.
Les événements se passent dans un futur proche où il y a des cyborgs et des androïdes. Une météorite heurte la croisière spatiale. Dans cette croisière échouée, une bagarre se produit et le protagoniste poursuit Kipa.
Le protagoniste veut attraper Kipa, le héros du monde et Kipa veut s’enfuir. Plus le premier s’approche de Kipa, la verité sur le naufrage de la croisière et celle sur le héros du monde se révèle...
* Livre primé au Grand Prix littéraire de la SF coréenne dans la catégorie “romans”.
- About the Author
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Park Haeul
(English) Park Haeul came to adore science fiction and fantasy while reading National Geographic and Newton as a child, and she majored in creative writing at university and graduate school to become a writer. After graduating and while working as an office worker, she continued to write wherever and whenever to achieve her dream. In 2018, she won the Grand Prize for Novels at the 3rd Korean Science Literature Awards for her work Gipa. Park hope to write stories that are, not only easy and fun to read, but also awakening-awakening in a sense that the readers would begin to view their surroundings from a different angle once they close the book cover.
(French) Park Hae-Wool a passé son enfance avec National Geographic et Newton. Avec Kipa, elle a remporté le Grand Prix littéraire de la SF coréenne dans la catégorie “romans” en 2018. Elle a aussi publié sa nouvelle J’aime l’espoir dans le recueil de nouvelles la SF d’aujourd’hui #1. Elle souhaite écrire un livre qui permet aux lecteurs de voir le monde avec un nouveau regard. »
- Award
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Money Today, 2018, Grand Prize for Novels, 3rd Korean Science Literature Awards
The winner of the Korea Science Literature Award, 2019
- Recommendation
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"The author's attitude of earnestly confronting the truth, without distinction between good and evil, is admirable. Her approach to discovering warmth in the cold truth makes me anticipate the worlds she will create in the future." - Kim Choyeop (Novelist), 2019
- Selection
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Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism, 2019, Sejong Books for Sharing Literature
