The Last Summer in Nogunri
• Original title : 노근리, 그 해 여름
• Price : 9,800KRW
• Product Dimensions :
153*225, 232pages
• Publication Date : 2005-09-02
• ISBN : 978-89-5828-115-3, 978-89-5828-115-3(세트)
Book Information & Summary
Written by Kim, Jeong-Hee / Illustrated by Kang, Jeon-Hee
In memory of a sad event that had to be kept in dark for so long...
This is a story about the Korean War and one of the most horrible and terrible events that happened in Nogunri during the war. In July, 1950, the U.S. army locked about 400 people of Nogunri town in a dark cave and shot them indiscriminately. This story is mainly about a girl named Eun-Sil who luckily survived from the hell-like cave and how she lived after that horrible event.
A 12-year-old Eun-Sil lost her mother and brothers in 'Nogunri event' and lived with her disabled father, mentally shocked elder sister and grandmother. All the people in Nogunri suffered from the same event in the past but manage to live their own lives day by day in deep grief. However, no one can speak out about 'that event'. That is because the concept of a civilian massacre done by the U.S. army could never 'exist'. Psychological wounds that are never to be spoken out terribly irritate Eun-Sil and people in Nogunri all the time.
Although the story is too dark for the kids to understand, the writer chose this subject and created the story with thorough on-site research for a year, because we have to look back on our terrible wounds and sorrow of tragedy in order not to allow the same history to be repeated any more.
Eun-Sil is too young to experience hell-like life-and-death situation. However, the tragedy caused by war or massacre is way too scary just because it hurt our lives indiscriminately. This fiction, which contains too much grief, will help today's kids, who are accustomed to hearing only about a beautiful life, to face and understand the real world through the tragedy.
In memory of a sad event that had to be kept in dark for so long...
This is a story about the Korean War and one of the most horrible and terrible events that happened in Nogunri during the war. In July, 1950, the U.S. army locked about 400 people of Nogunri town in a dark cave and shot them indiscriminately. This story is mainly about a girl named Eun-Sil who luckily survived from the hell-like cave and how she lived after that horrible event.
A 12-year-old Eun-Sil lost her mother and brothers in 'Nogunri event' and lived with her disabled father, mentally shocked elder sister and grandmother. All the people in Nogunri suffered from the same event in the past but manage to live their own lives day by day in deep grief. However, no one can speak out about 'that event'. That is because the concept of a civilian massacre done by the U.S. army could never 'exist'. Psychological wounds that are never to be spoken out terribly irritate Eun-Sil and people in Nogunri all the time.
Although the story is too dark for the kids to understand, the writer chose this subject and created the story with thorough on-site research for a year, because we have to look back on our terrible wounds and sorrow of tragedy in order not to allow the same history to be repeated any more.
Eun-Sil is too young to experience hell-like life-and-death situation. However, the tragedy caused by war or massacre is way too scary just because it hurt our lives indiscriminately. This fiction, which contains too much grief, will help today's kids, who are accustomed to hearing only about a beautiful life, to face and understand the real world through the tragedy.