"“I’ll awaken your memory”
The moment the switch of a memory is turned on, the secret behind a yet-to-come past is revealed!
It’s the year 2057 in Seoul, and all the ice of the world has melted to create a dystopia in which buildings are submerged under the sea. After cities are flooded and dams are broken, the surviving leave their apartments and settle down in mountains. Among them is Seonyul, a child who is not afraid of the depths of the water, who works as a “mulggun” who explores the underwater to salvage objects of old. Seonyul, the mulggun of Nogo Mountain, and Woochan, the mulggun of Nam Mountain, become rivals, making a bet challenging each other to bring back from the water a booty cooler than what the other may bring. As Seonyul scavenges the water’s depths, they discover a machine that looks just like a human.
The machine is none other than the android Suho, awakened after being asleep with four years of its memory deleted. What can be found in Suho’s lost memory of four years after Suho has woken up in a world collapsed? In order to find the truth, Seonyul and Suho dive towards Seoul, a city submerged in water. Will Suho be able to face its past and recover itself?
A story of growth and recovery the likes of Almond and Paint
The sixth novel in the Fiction Y series that has brought together the best of Korean-style Young Adult fiction
A writer discovered by Changbi, a YA fiction powerhouse that published Almond and Paint to critical acclaim, Danyo is a debut author who is being introduced to readers for the first time through Dive, but nevertheless a writer who has created a work complete with the strengths of the YA genre—from vivid and meticulous sentences to charming characters. "
There are no expectations.