- Overview
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In this book, Chung Serang tells the interesting and touching stories of those who are directly or indirectly related to a university hospital in the city.
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This book consists of fifty chapters that deal with dangerous situations or sudden accidents people face and their concerns related to social issues. Throughout the book, the author holds the hands of fifty characters with her characteristic delicacy and kindness.
Fifty People contains the voices of people who are just like us and portrays their personal issues as well as social conflicts. The author mixes the sorrows and moving moments of life in a harmonious way with neither hollow optimism nor miserable despair. As we can assume from what Chung said, “After finishing the book, I came to accept that it was right to write this novel in 2016” (from the author’s note, p. 392), the book touches on various social events that happened in 2016 with clarity, including the life of the bereaved family who lost their family member from a humidifier sterilizer (Han Kyuik), the perspectives of sexual minorities living in South Korea (Kim Seongjin and Ji Yeongji), awareness on abortion and contraception (Lee Sugyeong), falling into a sink hole (Choi Aeseon and Bae Yunna), and the danger of accidents caused by heavy goods vehicles (Jang Yura and Oh Jeongbin). The episode about a woman who has lost her husband to a car accident yet gives sandwiches to drivers gathered for the Cargo Workers Union strike leaves a long-lasting impression.
- About the Author
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Chung Serang
(English) Chung Serang was born in 1984 in Seoul. Chung started her career as a writer in 2010 with her work Dream, Dream, Dream, in the literary magazine Fantastic. In 2013, Chung received the 7th Changbi Novel Award with her novel This Close. Novels Chung has written include I Want to See the Snaggletooth, Only One Han-a on Earth, This Close, Jaein, Jaewook, and Jaehoon and School Nurse Ahn Eunyoung. Chung also participated in the story collection Fortunately Graduating.
(Japanese) 1984年ソウル生まれ。2010年『ファンタスティック』に『夢、夢、夢』を発表し、作品活動を開始。2013年『このくらい近くに』でチャンビ長編小説賞を、2017年『フィフティ・ピープル』で韓国日報文学賞を受賞。小説集『屋上で会いましょう』、『声をあげます』、『アラの小説』、長編小説『八重歯が見たい』、『地球でハナだけ』『ジェイン、ジェウク、ジェフン』、『保健教師アン・ウンヨン』『視線から』、散文集『地球人ほど地球を愛すことはできない』などがある。
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