Description 작품 소개
17-year-old Nine is your average high school student living alone with her aunt on Earth. But one day, she starts hearing the voices of plants, and sprouts begin to bud from underneath her fingernails. Afterwards, a boy named Seungtaek approaches her and says, “You and I are the same kind of beings,” adding to Nine’s confusion. That’s when her aunt finally tells her the truth: you are the ninth sprout, a being with special powers.
Though Nine is dumbfounded by what she has newly learned about herself, she continues to live her normal life thanks to people who stay by her side, such as her aunt, friends Hyeonjae and Mirae, and Seungtaek. The only thing different is that she can now talk with plants. Through her ability to interact with plants, Nine learns the full story behind Park Wonwoo, an upperclassman from her high school who went missing two years ago, never to return. She decides to uncover the truth about his disappearance, but she can’t convince others of what she knows just based on the stories told to her by the forest. Nine and her friends who believe in her are all only 17. There’s no way a few high schoolers would be taken seriously about a case that was closed two years ago. So, Nine and her friends start looking into finding their own way to laying bare the truth about Park Wonwoo’s disappearance. Will missing
Park Wonwoo finally return?
Author Bio 작가 소개
Cheon Seonran is a Korean science fiction writer. Her published works include the full-length novels A Broken Bridge, A Thousand Blues, and Nine; and the short story collections Some Shape of Love and No Land.
SF소설가. 장편소설 『무너진 다리』, 『천 개의 파랑』, 『나인』, 소설집 『어떤 물질의 사랑』, 『노랜드』를 썼다.
There are no expectations.