Predestined

Jun Namgoong 지음

디글라시아 2020년 12월 01일 출간

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Predestined

What’s it like to live in the 1990s in South Korea? What’s it like to get stuck in the army barrack in South Korean military? Jun Namgoong’s debut novel “Predestined” will take you along on a boy’s journey that eventually transforms him into a heartless Korean sergeant.

Told from the third person’s point of view (Part 1: in the 1990s) and that of a South Korean sergeant’s (Part 2: in the Army), the story gives us the vivid first accounts of transformations that most South Korean men had to go through in the 1990s.

When Jun, a chubby, timid 13 years old, transfers to a new school in Banghwa-dong, a suburb of Seoul, he knows what will happen. He will be beat up by Iljjins (the best and most notorious cool bunch in school) and his life will be miserable, a prediction that is not wrong until he meets a pure, baby-faced girl―Heeyoung―who is, as the author describes, everything for the little boy. But in life, nothing lasts forever.

Isolated from society and stuck in a run-down army barrack, Jun shows us what not to do and what should be done by rank during the military service. Through the physical and verbal attacks, Jun experiences a life-changing transformation that culminates in the better part of his being sergeant.

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PART ONE-THE YEAR OF 1998

Chapter One Bullies
Chapter Two the Smile
Chapter Three Korean Mom and Dad
Chapter Four Dream
Chapter Five Acceptance
Chapter Six Transformation
Chapter Seven Final Confession
Chapter Eight Material
Chapter Nine Obsession
Chapter Ten Draft Notice

PART TWO-IN THE ARMY

Chapter Eleven Korean Sergeant
Chapter Twelve PX
Chapter Thirteen Night Watch
Chapter Fourteen The Mountain Again
Chapter Fifteen Return to Sweet Rathole
Chapter Sixteen The Prep
Chapter Seventeen Four Nights
Chapter Eighteen Dream

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저자(글) Jun Namgoong

Jun Namgoong (남궁 준)한국계 영미 문학 소설가로 활동중이며, 데뷰 소설 Predestined (영문판)을 통하여 한국을 세상에 알리고자 합니다.