Title: Eternal Heaven
Korean Title:영원한 천국
Author:Jeong Yu-jeong
Publisher:Eunhangnam00
ISBN:9791167374561


524page /140*210mm 651g

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About This Book

Description Exploring human desires that run beyond reality! The second story in the desire trilogy following 《Perfect Happiness》, the most distant future of humanity reached by novelist Jung Yoo-jung! The new work of novelist Jung Yoo-jung, who has led readers to the 'Jung Yoo-jung World' with each published work, is being published. In 《28》, she deals with infectious diseases, and in 《Jin, Genie》, she deals with hominoids. The author, who has sensed changes in the world a priori and explored what is most human in it, has this new work as the second book in the desire trilogy following 《Perfect Happiness》, 《Eternal Heaven》. In the evil trilogy 《Seven Years of Night》, 《28》, and 《Origin of Species》, the author confronted human 'evil' and fought a fierce battle with it, and now confronts human 'desire' head-on.

The tip of Jung Yoo-jung's sharp pen is aimed at the end of human desire, that distant state. With the advancement of science, human desires have become easier and simpler to achieve. As science advances, human beings will be able to satisfy more and more desires in more diverse ways. So can we reach a point where desires are completely satisfied? If we could choose everything in an eternal world that transcends time and space constraints, if we could experience all possible worlds, what would be the last remaining desire of humankind?

Novels are like huge blockbusters prepared for readers. They create vivid worlds by traveling back and forth between time and space. On one axis of the novel is a world surrounded by drift ice. Those who seek and those who try to steal, those who run away and those who wait, come together to form a veritable 'honey trap'. The desires of each of the characters, who are meticulously implemented, are as fierce as the winter wind. On the other axis is 'Haesang', a technician who lives off of desires. Haesang, a storyteller and programming technician who realizes others' desires, meets 'Gyeongju' following a strange request that comes to him. The place where they meet is 'Lola'. Lola's world is a Benjaminian arcade where shining virtualities meet and create reality. What do we desire in Lola, which reminds us of the virtual theater of future mankind? When human desires intersect and collide, what is the final desire that remains for us? The novel opens one door of the tightly closed arcade and lets the reader escape.

For this novel, the author went back and forth between Abashiri in Hokkaido and the Bahariya Desert in Egypt. She brought up the novel in the middle of the dark sea surrounded by huge drift ice, in the middle of what was once the sea but is now a desolate and dry land. Perhaps that is why this novel is colder and hotter than ever. It resembles the 'wildness of humans' that the author aims for. Despite the overwhelming volume of over 500 pages, the intense immersion that drives the reader without a moment to breathe, the vivid characters that seem to ooze blood, and the narrative that pushes forward without fear are already Jeong Yu-jeong's signatures. She invites readers to that world, a work that only she can write.

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