Written by Lee Geum-yi

This book is the novel selection of the children and youth literature writer, Lee, Guem-Ee, who has the nick name of ‘the most honest story-teller in this time’. Since her debut, she has shown the warm humanity and genuine aspects of literary works through 20 series of selections up to now. This book contains the short stories released for the past 5 years, and it makes us look back on the strange reality that the youth experience, and the harsh reality of our society where teenagers are at the edge of cliff due to academic grades and college exams. The story of a violent boy who orders to his own mother, the story of a girl who becomes a totally different person one day, the responses from the family at Room 1705 about the boy who keeps coming up in front of their house, and the stories of children who gather in the ruined building of ‘Paradise’, and all these stories in this time when being a youth is strange and odd thing are sometimes frustrating but also hopeful, because these contain the efforts of all of us to discover the seed of hope.