The Struggles of a Girl Fated to Die Young
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• Original title : 단명소녀 투쟁기
• Price : 12,000KRW
• Product Dimensions :
123x195, 152pages
• Publication Date : 2021-07-15
• ISBN : 979-11-6094-742-7
Book Information & Summary
Written by Hyun Ho Jeong
The Award Winner of the 1st Park Ji Ri Literature Award
The first book written by a rookie writer, Hyun Ho Jeong
“I can kill my death.”
The writer brought the motif from the traditional folk tale, ‘A Tale of a Boy Fated to Die Young’, which characters wish for longer life to old people controlling their life. The existing tales to extend life by exchanging for things and ceremonies to God used to focus on only boys based on the Korean society under male-dominated culture. On the contrary, we do not know well about tales to extend our life for girls. The main character of this book written by Hyun Ho Jeong is an independent and self-regulating girl to seek the meaning of death philosophically and find out social conditions by facing God.
Gu Soo Jung, a 19-year-old girl, heard that she was supposed to be dead before the age of 20 from the half-God, Bukdu. Therefore, she decided to go on a journey to extend her life on her own. Right before leaving, aunt Eun Joo who works as a fortuneteller gave her 100 pieces of Baeksulki, the Korean white rice cake. Soo Jung succeeded in escaping from the reality when she met a drunken man, the first obstacle, at the subway station in her neighborhood. She could run away from the crisis by climbing onto the back of a half-lion and half-dog with wings, and she continued flying toward another world. When she arrived at the dry lake surrounded by black mountains, she realized that the name of the dog was ‘Tomorrow’. And then, she met Yian. Yian was also 19 years old but he was on a journey toward death unlike Soo Jung. Both visited several places together, such as the rock desert, the village near the desert, and crossed the river to a small island.
By doing so, they both carried their missions to want what they each wanted while visiting unfamiliar places. The list handed by the death God contained a pharmacist, a cleaner, a snow-human, a mosquito-human, and scarecrow-human, etc., and only after they killed these in the list, they could reach their goals – life for Soo Jung and death for Yian. Can this girl, Soo Jung, who almost fated to die young, kill her death and survive in the end? This charming book makes readers difficult to realize what is real or what is fantasy while reading, and the book shows a new phase at the very last page.
The Award Winner of the 1st Park Ji Ri Literature Award
The first book written by a rookie writer, Hyun Ho Jeong
“I can kill my death.”
The writer brought the motif from the traditional folk tale, ‘A Tale of a Boy Fated to Die Young’, which characters wish for longer life to old people controlling their life. The existing tales to extend life by exchanging for things and ceremonies to God used to focus on only boys based on the Korean society under male-dominated culture. On the contrary, we do not know well about tales to extend our life for girls. The main character of this book written by Hyun Ho Jeong is an independent and self-regulating girl to seek the meaning of death philosophically and find out social conditions by facing God.
Gu Soo Jung, a 19-year-old girl, heard that she was supposed to be dead before the age of 20 from the half-God, Bukdu. Therefore, she decided to go on a journey to extend her life on her own. Right before leaving, aunt Eun Joo who works as a fortuneteller gave her 100 pieces of Baeksulki, the Korean white rice cake. Soo Jung succeeded in escaping from the reality when she met a drunken man, the first obstacle, at the subway station in her neighborhood. She could run away from the crisis by climbing onto the back of a half-lion and half-dog with wings, and she continued flying toward another world. When she arrived at the dry lake surrounded by black mountains, she realized that the name of the dog was ‘Tomorrow’. And then, she met Yian. Yian was also 19 years old but he was on a journey toward death unlike Soo Jung. Both visited several places together, such as the rock desert, the village near the desert, and crossed the river to a small island.
By doing so, they both carried their missions to want what they each wanted while visiting unfamiliar places. The list handed by the death God contained a pharmacist, a cleaner, a snow-human, a mosquito-human, and scarecrow-human, etc., and only after they killed these in the list, they could reach their goals – life for Soo Jung and death for Yian. Can this girl, Soo Jung, who almost fated to die young, kill her death and survive in the end? This charming book makes readers difficult to realize what is real or what is fantasy while reading, and the book shows a new phase at the very last page.