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    Our Happy Time

    By Gong Ji-young

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    THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Yujeong - beautiful, bright and wealthy - is in hospital recovering from her third suicide attempt. Angry at the world, she reluctantly accepts her nononsense aunt's suggestion: to accompany her on charitable visits to inmates on death row. At first, Yunsu - a convicted murderer - seems unrepenting and savage. Yujeong is repulsed by his crimes, but detects deep suffering behind his hard demeanour. Slowly and with growing passion, the two young misfits reveal to each other the dark secrets and traumas that have shaped their lives. Yet every week Yunsu's hands are in cuffs, and it is impossible to forget that the time they have together is painfully short… From one of South Korea's bestselling authors... a story that will make you rethink the way we can love others, and how we can ultimately redeem ourselves.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShort Books Ltd
    Release dateFeb 6, 2014
    ISBN9781780720975
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    Our Happy Time
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    Gong Ji-young

    Gong Ji-young is one of Korea’s most beloved and critically acclaimed novelists. She has sold more than 10 million books in South Korea alone. Her awards include the 2011 Yisand Literary Award, the 21st Century Literary Award, the Korean Novel Prize, Special Media Award, and Amnesty International for Our Happy Times. This is Gong’s first novel to be translated into English. Her books are published in China, Thailand, Japan, and the UK.

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    • 4/5
      Our Happy Time is a wonderful redemptive story, and from a very unusual angle and perspectives. While the author does a wonderful job of connecting the reader to the characters so that their transformations are all that more dramatic, I wish that I was able to feel more. It is very likely that there was something lost in the translation.
    • 4/5
      This has been the year of delicate, perfect, death-row stories for me. Stories that gripped me and held tight, even when I was crying angry tears and railing against the injustice of it all. OUR HAPPY TIME by Gong Ji-young is the perfect knitting together of the stories of two people who could not be more different: Yujeung and Yunsu. My initial impression is that both of these characters were young, but as the story develops it is revealed that they are, in fact, adults. The rich development and emotional tension of this book depends on that age, so don't let initial impressions fool you.Read the rest of this review at The Lost Entwife on July 31, 2014.