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Description 작품 소개
Nana at Dawn is the first full-length novel by a young novelist, PARK Hyoung-Su. The book is about Leo, a young Korean man who travels to Thailand, and settles down in the redlight district after meeting a legendary prostitute Ploy who captivates him. But the heart of the story is not in the plot. The author probes into the lives of Leo and Ploy who were husband and wife in their previous lives, and through their present day reunion, digs into all kinds of lives that are set in the red-light district. The author adroitly depicted the complex intertwined characters’ lives by going back and forth between the fantasy and reality, desire and despair, as well as their past and present lives. The word “Thai” connotes freedom. Within the freedom, just like the name signifies, the author shows us that the place over floods with all kinds of freedom—such as freedom to drink morning till night, to go around naked, not to obey one’s parents, and take different kinds of drugs. But amidst this freedom, the protagonist realizes that there is not one person among us who has not lived the life of a prostitute. The author’s sensitive description and the underlying wit and pathos in his prose show that this book has gone beyond what he has shown in his previous works, Have to Know When You Raise a Rabbit and Fictions of Midnight. More than anything else, in the face of the scathing questions directed at the world and its people, readers will find themselves drawn to the characters of Nana at Dawn. It could also be that after reading the book, the reader might want to visit Thailand, in the hope that Leo and Ploy might actually be there, to meet them whom we might have met in our previous lives. Once the readers have finished reading the last page of the novel, it will dawn on them that the story of Nana is the story of the entire world, and that the story of the prostitutes is a universal narrative of humanity.
Born in 1972, in Chuncheon, Kangwon-do. He has published three collections of short stories, Have to Know When You Raise a Rabbit, Fictions of Midnight, Handmade Fiction and a novel, Nana at Dawn . He was the recipient of the Daesan Literary Awards
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