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You-Jeong Jeong (translated by An Seon Jae)

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  • Designed by Sangnok.kr
  • 360 pages
  • Published
  • 9781915829429 (pb) / 9781915829436 (e)

Author | Translator

Author You-Jeong Jeong won the inaugural Segye Youth Literary Award in 2007 with her novel My Life’s Spring Camp and the 5th Segye Ilbo Literary Award with Shoot Me in the Heart in 2009. Her novels Seven Years of Darkness, 28, and The Good Son were selected as “Book of the Year” by major media outlets and bookstores, gaining widespread acclaim. These works have been translated and published in 23 countries, including the US, UK, France, Germany, Finland, China, Japan, and Brazil.

Her other works include essays You-Jeong Jeong's Himalayan Fantasy Wandering and You-Jeong Jeong on Storytelling, as well as novels Perfect Happiness and Eternal Heaven.

An Seon Jae was born in Britain in 1942 and has lived in Korea since 1980. He has published over 60 volumes of translations of modern Korean poetry as well as a dozen Korean novels. For that he has received several awards, including the 2024 Manhae Literary Award. He took Korean nationality in 1994. He is a professor emeritus of Sogang University, Seoul, where he taught for some 30 years. In 2015 he received an MBE for his contributions to Korean-British understanding. He is a member of the ecumenical Community of Taizé (France) and as such is better known as Brother Anthony of Taizé.

Jini dedicates her life to the study of primates. One night, she helps rescue a bonobo that has escaped from a burning building. As she holds the bonobo in her arms on the way back to the Center for Primate Studies, an accident throws her through the windshield and a strange fusion takes place: while her body is taken to the hospital, between life and death, Jini’s spirit takes refuge in the body of the little bonobo. Thus begins a fascinating coexistence between the two beings.

From the author of the #1 international bestsellers The Good Son and Seven Years of Darkness, Jeong delivers a captivating story that keeps us on our toes from start to finish. But the real originality of his novel is to examine the boundaries between human and animal by making us enter the universe and the sensitivity of bonobos.

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