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A SPOONFUL OF TIME scrap

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  • ISBN

    9788959130580

  • Author

    Gu Byeong-mo구병모

  • Publisher

    Wisdom House, Inc.(주) 위즈덤하우스

  • Year Published

    2016

  • Category

    Literary Fiction 소설

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! Updated: 2024-09-30

  • Posted by Wisdom House, Inc. on 2024-09-24
  • Updated by Wisdom House, Inc. on 2024-09-30

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Description 작품 소개

A Drop of Blue Detergent Splashed into the Water and Vanished
“It’s Alright, Anything with a Form is Bound to Get Stained”
“But People Scrub and Scrub and Scrub”

It delicately depicts a robot in the form of a 17-year-old boy who finds new life at the laundry store learning little by little about the complicated life of human beings.

Myeong-jeong is a widowed old man who runs a laundry store by himself in a small and quiet neighborhood. One day, he receives the devastating news that his son has died abroad. Sometime after, Myeong-jeong receives a package, which his son sent before his death, and finds a robot in the form of a 17-year old boy. The encounter of an old man who just lost his whole family and a robot who has no understanding of the world begins. He names the robot ‘Eun-gyeol’ after the name he saved for his second grandchild.
After nine years, Myeong-jeong slowly realizes that he doesn’t have that much time left and need to organize his life, and Eun-gyeol is slowly learning emotions despite his emotionless looks. Although Eun-gyeol is capable of highly complicated calculations, he cannot figure out the answers from the complex human life. A SPOONFUL OF TIME depicts the complex life of various people through the perspectives of an old man Myeong-jeong and a robot Eun-gyeol.

Like the saying Myeong-jeong told Eun-gyeol one day, “the age of the universe is over 13.7 billion years and the Earth is only 4.5 billion years old, our life is short like that blue detergent dissolving into the water”, it is heartwarming to see how the two very different stages of life resonate to find the valuable meanings of existence.

Author Bio 작가 소개

구병모

Gu Byeong-mo구병모

Gu Byeong-mo made her literary debut with the novel Wizard Bakery, which won the 2008 Changbi Award for YA Fiction. She has since published the novels Agami (Gills), Pagwa (Bruised Fruit), A Spoonful of Time, Four Neighbors’ Dinner Table, A Story Embroidered in the Heart, A Poem of Needle and Leather; the YA novels Come to Bangju, The Children of Pygmalion, and Bird Strike; and the short-story collections As Long It’s Not Me, The Red Shoes Party, and Just One Sentence. Pagwa is set to be published in the US by Hanover Square Press as The Old Woman with the Knife in 2022.

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