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MINAFrench(Français) Funded by LTI Korea Available
Kim Sagwa(Apple Kim) et al / 김사과 / 2013 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century > Romance
La quatrième de couverture Mina, Minho et Sujeong, les trois lycéens de ce roman font partie de la nouvelle génération Gangnam Style. Après le suicide de sa meilleure amie, la vie de Mina bascule. Dans sa chute, elle entraîne Sujeong, son autre amie. Freinée dans des ambitions qu’elle pense légitimes, cette dernière va se venger de la plus horrible des manières. Une vengeance à plonger le lecteur dans la stupeur. Avec Mina, nous entrons dans le royaume de la jeunesse dorée de Séoul, une jeunesse surtout soucieuse de jouir sans entrave, qui n’a ni désillusion, ni scrupule, ni traumatisme. Impassible devant la souffrance des autres (ou des animaux) et certaine de son destin protégé, elle est fière d’appartenir à une élite abrutie par le maintien de son statut social. À 29 ans, considérée comme une écrivaine irrévérencieuse, Kim Apple est la figure de proue des écrivains en révolte contre un système accusé de broyer une jeunesse insouciante jusqu’à l’inconscience, jouisseuse, violente et si peu préoccupée de l’intérêt public. Elle dénonce sans relâche une société mercantile et stressante, et des conflits intergénérationnels qui poussent chaque catégorie à en exclure une autre. Source: http://www.decrescenzo-editeurs.com/portfolio-items/mina/
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minaEnglish(English) Funded by LTI Korea Available
Kim Sagwa(Apple Kim) et al / 김사과 / 2018 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century > Romance
Kim’s English-language debut shines a light on the unique pressures faced by Korean teenagers, and the darker sides of adolescent rage. Outwardly, Crystal seems like an average teen: clever, beautiful, and confident, she studies hard for cram school, goes to karaoke, and has a rotating cast of boyfriends she discards with ease. Her best friend is the titular Mina, whose older brother, Minho, is the boy Crystal has a crush on, and with whom Crystal has a refreshingly realistic and caustic relationship. But when Pak Chiye, a girl from their high school and Mina’s childhood friend, kills herself by jumping from the roof of their school building, Mina is greatly affected, withdrawing from school and growing depressed. For Crystal, this serves as something of a trigger, with her behavior becoming increasingly more erratic as she must reconcile her own sense of self with the pressures placed on young people by a society where “reward means suffering and suffering means reward.” This escalates into random acts of violence, which stand out from the dialogue- and detail-heavy novel as particularly chilling and heartbreaking. As a writer, Kim is wordy and specific, sometimes too concerned with the minutiae of an interaction and drawing attention away from the story at large. But as a cartographer and guide of the teenage experience, she is an expert, crafting an unsettling, deeply felt, and ultimately devastating depiction of the turmoil of youth. Source URL : https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-931883-74-0
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