- Overview
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This is a wacky coming-of-age story about a group of fifteen-year-old students and their travels.
- Book Intro
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This book received an award at the 1st Annual World Youth Literature Awards in 2007 for its engaging, exhilarating story and ability to weave humanity into its period narrative. The story begins in the summer of 1986 at a village near Suwon.
Jun-ho, the main character, is asked for a special favor by his friend Kyu-hwan. Kyu-hwan asks Jun-ho to deliver a passport and travel expenses to his brother, a legendary figure in the student protests, so that he could escape abroad. They decide to meet at Imja Island in Sinan County. Jun-ho expected to be traveling alone, but he is soon joined by his uninvited neighborhood friends Seung-ju and Jeong-a. As if his plan couldn't get any worse, he is joined by an unknown elderly man and a Dobermann named Roosevelt.
The story of these five companions is told in first-person through Jun-ho, unfolding much like a comedic road movie.
The three teenagers leap head-first on a tumultuous journey into a strange world and learn a secret of life through all kinds of twists and turns. This book will provide a much-needed new perspective to today's teenagers.
- About the Author
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Jeong Youjeong
(English) Jeong Youjeong is a novelist who won the first Segye Young Adults Literary Award for My Life's Spring Camp, and the fifth Segye Literature Award for Shoot Me in the Heart. Her following novels, Seven Years of Darkness, 28, and The Good Son have been selected as Book of the Year by different bookstores and newspapers. Read and loved by international readers, her books have been translated into more than 20 languages including English, French, German, Finnish, Chinese, Japanese, and Portuguese. She has also published collections of her essays: Jeong You Jeong’s Fantasy Roaming of Himalayas, and Stories about Stories-telling. In 2019, she published her latest novel, Jinyi, Jini.
(Japanese) 長編小説『人生のスプリングキャンプ』で第1回世界青少年文学賞を、『私の心臓を撃て』で第5回世界文学賞を受賞。長編小説『7年の夜』、『28』、『種の起源』は主要メディアや書店で「今年の本」に選ばれ、大きな話題を集めた。英米圏をはじめ、フランス、ドイツ、日本など海外20カ国以上で翻訳出版され、多くの読者に愛されている。他にもエッセイ『チョン・ユジョンのヒマラヤ幻想放浪』、『チョン・ユジョン物語を語る』がある。2019年に長編『ジニ、ジニ』を出版し、2021年に新作『完全な幸福』を出版した。
- Award
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Segye Ilbo, 2007, World Adolescent Literature Award
