- Overview
-
- Book Intro
-
I ordered pork cutlet, but a live pig was delivered?!
An intense story that subverts the ordinary dinner scene
The Disappeared Dinner is set in an apartment complex in the city center, where food delivery
is easily accessible. The introduction scene, in which the food is quickly delivered to your door
when you place an order with your phone inside the house, is familiar to us today. The writer,
however, puts a living and breathing pig instead of a delicious food. On the body of the pig,
there is a note by the restaurant owner that says “My apologies. I didn’t have time to cook. You
can do it yourself!Room 702 ordered port cutlet, room 805 ordered gamjatang (pork soup),
room 904 ordered jokbal (braised pork feet)The faces of residents facing pigs instead of
the food they ordered are flustered. What choice will they make?
The setting that a live pig was delivered because even the chef had no choice but go out on
delivery due to a flood of orders creates a comical and disturbing atmosphere throughout the
work. The writer heightens the tension of the narrative as well as stimulates the senses that
have been dulled by the convenience of the non-face-to-face era. The Disappeared Dinner will
give the readers an opportunity to think in detail about the problems that modem people, who
are accustomed to "convenience” and “speed”, were missing out on.
- About the Author
-
Jungmin Kwon
(Japanese) 大学で応用動物科学科を専攻しましたたが、専攻よりも名画を真似て描くなど、絵に対する関心が高かったです。放送作家として10年以上働き、この時の経験のおかげなのか絵本作家の道に入った後も徹底した資料収集で絵本を構成します。
『ママ図鑑』は、作家が子供を産み、何の準備もなく迎えた子育ての時間、すべてが初めての瞬間を全身で受け止めながらずっと構想していた話です。
(French) Elle a travaillé comme rédactrice radiophonique pendant plus de 10 ans, et grâce à son expérience à cette époque, même après être entrée dans la voie d’un écrivain de livres d’images, elle compose des livres d’images avec une collecte de données approfondie.
<Encyclopédie de maman> est une histoire que l’auteur a conçue tout au long du temps de l’éducation des enfants, le moment où tout était la première fois qu’il a dû affronter sans aucune préparation après avoir donné naissance à un enfant. C’est pourquoi je suscite plus de sympathie chez les lecteurs.
- Award