Mango Princess and the Knight Oliver
• Original title : 망고 공주와 기사 올리버
• Price : 9,000KRW
• Product Dimensions :
153×210, 248pages
• Publication Date : 2009-08-27
• ISBN : 978-89-5828-395-9
Book Information & Summary
Written by Kim Su-kyoung
Soo-hyun is a girl who had to come to the South Africa, isolating herself from her father after her mother passed away. Oliver is a white boy, who happened to confuse the fairy tale of the Knight and the princess heard from the grandmother with the real life. People always say to Oliver, “You are retarded.” Tabo is a black man, who has been looking for his friend, the leader of black people. His friend disappeared during Apartheid-extreme racialist movement. This book contains the story of three friends, who have gone beyond their nationality, race, and age. Their friendship and adventure are speedily described with intriguing style and tone, as well as well-organized plot of cross-view of three main characters.
However, if you just read this story, thinking this is just a romantic story like a fairy tale, or a sensitive girl’s growing-up novel, or an adventurous book, you may have made a mistake. There is spectacular twist in the end. The author brilliantly pinpoints fierce reality of the South Africa with the unrealistic fairy-tale-like plot. Yo-han, a friend of Tabo, disappeared 20 years ago. He was the leader of anti-Apartheid movement among black people. However, timeline is not specifically mentioned in
this novel. We can only come up with Nelson Mandela, the first black president in the South Africa in 1994, with the sentence that “About ten years ago, a black president finally was elected.”
The author does not deal with the disappearance of Yohan, and the riot of black people openly. Furthermore, the author shows the sensitive tension between white and black people, as well as discrimination. A reverend with blue eyes, who locks up Yohan even though Apartheid is all over, is the representative character of white supremacy.
Soo-hyun is a girl who had to come to the South Africa, isolating herself from her father after her mother passed away. Oliver is a white boy, who happened to confuse the fairy tale of the Knight and the princess heard from the grandmother with the real life. People always say to Oliver, “You are retarded.” Tabo is a black man, who has been looking for his friend, the leader of black people. His friend disappeared during Apartheid-extreme racialist movement. This book contains the story of three friends, who have gone beyond their nationality, race, and age. Their friendship and adventure are speedily described with intriguing style and tone, as well as well-organized plot of cross-view of three main characters.
However, if you just read this story, thinking this is just a romantic story like a fairy tale, or a sensitive girl’s growing-up novel, or an adventurous book, you may have made a mistake. There is spectacular twist in the end. The author brilliantly pinpoints fierce reality of the South Africa with the unrealistic fairy-tale-like plot. Yo-han, a friend of Tabo, disappeared 20 years ago. He was the leader of anti-Apartheid movement among black people. However, timeline is not specifically mentioned in
this novel. We can only come up with Nelson Mandela, the first black president in the South Africa in 1994, with the sentence that “About ten years ago, a black president finally was elected.”
The author does not deal with the disappearance of Yohan, and the riot of black people openly. Furthermore, the author shows the sensitive tension between white and black people, as well as discrimination. A reverend with blue eyes, who locks up Yohan even though Apartheid is all over, is the representative character of white supremacy.