If Go Mijeong, Daechi-dongs Top Student, Falls
Korean Title: 대치동 1등급 고미정이 망하면
Author: Woo Shinyoung
Publisher: Woori School
ISBN: 9791167553799
184 pages | 140 * 205 mm | 239 g
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About This Book
In Daechi-dong, where children spend millions of won on cram schools with ease but often eat meals from convenience stores or fast-food restaurants, where they carry phones that can only make calls and send texts, and where even runaway students still go to academies, this is a place defined by the college entrance exam war.
In the final dungeon of that academic battlefield, can our protagonist, Go Mijeong, survive without becoming a donation angel for the academy district and without being knocked out by her mothers daily barrage of punches?
Award-winning author Woo Sinyoung, recipient of the Honnbul Literary Award, the Biryongso Golden Goblin Award, and the Social Criticism Story Prize, previously depicted the city of Songdo in City View, drawing a complex portrait of a modern urban landscape by alternating between its bright and shadowed sides. In this work, she turns her attention to Daechi-dong itself, weaving into youth literature everything she has witnessed there, including anxiety, worry, affection, and tears.
Following the exhausted Mijeong, the narrative gaze is at times cynical but also warm, carefully revealing and understanding each characters hidden circumstances. On a track where everyone runs in a line, stepping out can be frightening. But on the same track, people can still run at different speeds, in different ways. The world the reader encounters is one where children, whether underdeveloped or overgrown, move forward together in uneven rhythms.
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