内容简介

　　从小被否定、内心压抑的商场售货员、一生唯唯诺诺却走上复仇之路的老好人、极度自我却反复在生活中受锤的理想主义者、抓捕异议者晚年却走上维权之路的恶警——

　　9个短故事，堪称东亚都市神经症人格大全

　　包揽现代文学奖、东仁文学奖、李箱文学奖三大文学奖，

　　韩国鬼才作家，“不断进化的小说机器”金劲旭

　　短篇小说代表作首度引进。

　　在百货商场皮鞋专柜工作的售货员，每天在同一时间起床，在同一时间洗漱，某天在邻居的快递箱中发现猫的尸体；从战争中幸存的军人，余生都佩戴着两只手表，等待昔日荣光再次来临；一生从未做过一次坏事、循规蹈矩的男子，突然怀揣刀、氰化钾和骰子踏上复仇之路；拥有超能力的三位落魄老人，循着幻境寻找多年前的上司，却发现他们的命运成为一个完美的黑色玩笑；与周围格格不入的人，一次又一次飞上了天，照亮夜空的北斗七星化作伤疤落在他的额角；在被白雪覆盖的废弃村落里，一名留守少年守着永远睡不醒的爷爷，在无穷的时间里漂流。

　　这本书里的每一个人，都在自己搭建的小世界里旋转着，心事重重。在某个琥珀般封存起来的时空里，他们都是不老的“少年”。

　　作者简介

　　金劲旭（김경욱），韩国小说家，1971年生于光州，现任韩国艺术综合学校教授。1993年作品《局外人》获作家世界新人奖。曾先后获韩国几大权威文学奖——韩国日报文学奖、现代文学奖、东仁文学奖、金承钰文学奖、李箱文学奖等。主要作品有短篇小说《天国之门》《少年不老》《谁杀死了科特·柯本？》《危险的阅读》《99%》《别人的生活》《神没有孙子》《巴格达咖啡馆里没有咖啡》《去见贝蒂》，长篇小说《卫城》《莫里森酒店》《黄金苹果》《千年王国》《如童话一般》《棒球是什么？》。

　　关于译者

　　翻译家金冉，1972年生于吉林珲春，文学博士，现任哈尔滨工业大学威海校区副教授。主要译著有《冠村随笔》《你们的天国》《韩国分断小说选》（合译）《韩国现代小说选》（合译）《烧纸》《喜马拉雅诗篇》《模糊的旧爱之影》等多部。曾获韩国文学翻译院“韩国文学翻译奖”。

Content introduction

The shop assistant who was denied from childhood and depressed in heart, the old man who was obedient all his life but went on the road of revenge, the idealist who was extremely self-conscious but repeatedly hit in life, and the evil police who arrested the dissident but went on the road of rights protection in his later years

9 short stories, can be called East Asian urban neurosis personality complete

He won the Modern Literature Prize, the Dong-in Literature Prize and the Lee Box Literature Prize.

Kim Jin-wook, the "ever-evolving novel machine"

The short story was introduced for the first time.

A salesman who works in the leather shoes department store gets up at the same time every day and washes at the same time. One day, a cat's body is found in the neighbor's delivery box. The soldier who survived the war wears two watches for the rest of his life, waiting for the glory of the past to return. A man who has never done a bad thing in his life and follows the rules suddenly sets out on a path of revenge armed with a knife, potassium cyanide and dice; Three broken-down old men with superpowers follow a fantasy to find their boss from years ago, only to find that their fate becomes a perfect black joke; The people who are not compatible with the surrounding, fly to the sky again and again, and the big Dipper star that lights up the night sky falls on his forehead as a scar; In an abandoned village covered with snow, a left-behind teenager watches over his grandfather who never sleeps and drifts for endless hours.

Everyone in this book is spinning around in their own little world, preoccupied. In some time and space sealed up like amber, they are ageless "teenagers".

About the author

Kim Geun-wook (김경욱), Korean novelist, born in Gwangju in 1971, is a professor at the Korea National University of Arts. In 1993, he won the Writers' World New Talent Award for his work Outsider. He has won several authoritative literary awards in Korea, such as Hankook Ilbo Literature Award, Hyundai Literature Award, Dong-in Literature Award, Kim Seung-ok Literature Award, and Lee Box Literature Award. His main works include the short stories "Kingdom's Gate", "The Young Man Is Not Old" and "Who Killed Kurt Cobain?" "Dangerous Reading", "99%", "Other people's Lives", "God has no grandchildren", "There is no coffee in the Baghdad Cafe", "Going to see Betty", novels "Acropolis", "Morrison Hotel", "Golden Apple", "Millennium Kingdom", "Like a Fairy Tale", "What is Baseball?" .

About translators

Translator Jin Ran, born in 1972 in Hunchun, Jilin Province, has a Doctor of Literature and is currently an associate professor in Weihai Campus of Harbin Institute of Technology. His main translations include "Essays of Guan Village", "Your Kingdom of Heaven", "Selected Korean Novels in Fragments" (co-translated), "Selected Korean Modern Novels" (co-translated), "Burning paper", "Himalayan Psalms", "The Shadow of a Vague Old Love" and many other works. He was awarded the Korean Literary Translation Award by the Korean Literary Translation Institute.