Welcome to the thread for 뜻밖의 계절 | L25
It’s time for another book club! All discussions will take place within this home thread that will be updated each week with the current week number. So, make sure you use spoiler tags and indicate which part of the book you are going to refer to ahead of the tag to show respect to your follow-readers an any possible late-comers.
Summary
고2 반윤환은 새벽과 저녁 아르바이트로 학교에서는 잠만 자는 생활을 한다. 누구와도 말하지 않고 공부에도 관심이 없다. 어느 날 반에서 왕따로 통하는 지나루가 윤환이 일하는 편의점으로 찾아와 친구가 되자는 제안을 한다. 윤환은 1초의 고민도 없이 거절하고, 나루는 예상했다는 듯한 표정으로 편의점을 나선다. 며칠 뒤 복도에서 지나루와 한 여자 아이가 다투는 소리가 들리고, 곧 나루를 향해 “좀 꺼져라. 기생충이야?”라는 거친 말이 들려온다. 그 후 나루는 수업에도 들어오지 않고 정말로 사라져버리는데…….
English Summary
“Do You Know My Name?” Candid language and a fresh perspective like you’ve never seen before. A remarkable first novel by a 25-year-old author A Korean novel that bypasses the conventional paragraphs and offers new possibilities has arrived. This is a remarkable debut novel by a young writer born in 1994 who has never majored in literature or taken a writing class. The author, who currently works in the airport security industry, began writing fiction on his own when he was in his twenties, and his first novel, The Unexpected Season, is a story about characters who have been hurt in relationships. He portrays the loneliness of human beings, which is compared to an island, and the ‘relationship’ between people who cannot help but reach out to each other with a fresh perspective unique to young writers. This is a young novel with a new sensibility that conveys unexpected comfort without offering hasty hope.
Reading Schedule
This book has 280 pages or (234 RIDI pages when scaled on a tablet), so I did my best to break the weekly readings into somewhat regular sections varying between ~15-30 pages per week based on chapter length.
The starting pages below are based on the RIDI page numbers.
Week | Chapter title | Starting on page |
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1 | 선택 사항 | 5 |
이름 | 23 | |
2 | 공정한 대우 | 35 |
3 | 금 | 53 |
4 | 한 걸음 | 77 |
5 | 반성문 | 95 |
6 | 소문 | 115 |
생각 없는 사람들 | 131 | |
7 | 사랑 | 145 |
퍼즐 | 159 | |
8 | 후회 | 175 |
9 | 살아남는 방식 | 193 |
두 부류의 사람 | 205 | |
10 | 각자의 사정 | 217 |
작가의 말 | 229 (end) |
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