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[ 책 소개 ]
* A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
* An ALA Best Book for Young Adults
* A Booklist Editors' Choice
* A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
* Books for the Teen Age, New York Public Library
* Golden Kite Award
* Texas Lone Star Reading Award
* Vermont Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award
* Washington Evergreen Award
뉴베리 상을 두 번이나 수상한 폴 플라이쉬만의 작품으로서, 하나의 커다란 바람개비 같이 주인공 브렌트의 여정에 네 사람의 이야기를 한데 엮은 뛰어난 청소년 소설입니다. 기본적으로 주인공 브렌트가 여행하며 바람개비를 만들어 세우는 이야기가 큰 줄기를 이루고 있으며, 그 사이사이마다 브렌트가 만든 네 개의 바람개비를 받은 서로 다른 네 사람의 이야기가 교차되는 방식으로 진행됩니다. 꿈꿔왔던 사랑을 얻은 메인 주의 소녀, 마음의 평화를 얻게 된 푸에르토리코 인 거리 청소부, 부모의 끝없는 기대로부터 벗어나 휴식을 얻은 한국인 입양아, 죽음을 앞둔 할머니와 그 손녀의 이야기까지 짧지만 한 편 한 편이 그 자체만으로도 훌륭한 작품성을 갖고 있어 브렌트의 여정 못지않게 커다란 감동으로 다가올 것입니다.
자기중심적이고 허영심이 많은 브렌트는 뜻하지 않은 사고로 여자 아이 ‘리’를 죽게 만듭니다. 보호관찰과 사회봉사를 선고받은 브렌트는 리의 어머니를 만나고, 리의 어머니는 브렌트에게 미국의 네 귀퉁이에 리를 닮은 바람개비를 세워 달라고 요청합니다. 홀로 버스 여행을 하며 바람개비를 만드는 동안 브렌트는 자신이 리의 생명을 되돌릴 수는 없지만 그녀의 영혼이 바람개비를 통해 계속 살아간다는 사실을 서서히 깨닫습니다. 그는 밤하늘의 별들에게 감사하는 법을 배우고, 악기를 배우기 위해 요구되는 수양을 쌓고, 자신의 부모가 아니라 자신이 선택한 세상에서 스스로의 자리를 찾아갑니다...
국내에는 "바람을 만드는 소년"이라는 제목으로 번역서가 출간되어 있습니다.
[ 서지 정보 ]
Paperback: 144 pages
ISBN-10: 0312629117
ISBN-13: 978-0312629113
책 크기: 20.8 cm x 13.8 cm
[ 영문 서평 ]
Book Description
With a family always on the move, popularity and the ability to fit in quickly are vital to Brent Bishop’s high school survival. When he blows his chances with the girl of his dreams in front of everyone, he’s devastated. Brent tries to end it all in a fatal car crash, but instead he finds an unlikely beginning. He’s sent on a journey of repentance—a cross-country trip building whirligigs. His wind toys are found by people in need: a Maine schoolgirl yearning for her first love, a Miami street-sweeper desperate for peace and quiet, a kid in Washington who just wants to play baseball, and a San Diego teenager dealing with loss. Brent’s whirligigs bring hope to others, but will they be able to heal the wounds deep inside himself?
Publishers Weekly *Starred Review*
After a drunk teenage boy kills a girl while driving, his life is transformed by fulfilling a request of the girl's mother. PW's boxed review called Fleischman's novel "stellar."
School Library Journal
Newbery Medal-winner Paul Fleischman's story connectedness-to oneself, to others, and to nature. It is the story of a 16 year old's journey of self-discovery.
Booklist
A nonlinear narrative spun out from actions, both good and bad, and their ever-circling consequences, Fleischman's latest is an unusual construction, its parts fitting together in delicate balance, much like those of the whirligig of the title and the story's central metaphor. Driving home drunk from a party, Brent tries to kill himself by letting go of the wheel but instead kills another teenager. Her grief-stricken mother doesn't seek revenge; rather, she hands Brent a 45-day Greyhound bus pass and tells him that, since her daughter Lea loved whirligigs, she wants Brent to build four, each with Lea's face and name, and plant them in the four corners of the U.S.--Washington State, California, Maine, and Florida. Brent's journey of expiation across that summer alternates with beautiful, quicksilver stories, told in different time frames, of how the whirligigs that he builds and leaves behind profoundly affect the lives of a too-studious eighth-grader and her best friend in Maine, a Puerto Rican street sweeper in Miami, an adopted Korean boy in Washington, and a teenager and her dying grandmother in San Diego. Brent never becomes quite real; his struggle with tools, directions, and sorrow sometimes is pulled under by its own weight, but the story as a whole and the inner sense of self that Brent achieves through his experiences are mesmerizing. The language of the whirligig stories gleams and soars: a metaphor of movement, dance, laughter, and irrepressible life. Like the ritual journey in Sharon Creech's Walk Two Moons (1994) and Uncle Ob's whirligigs in Cynthia Rylant's Missing May (1992), loss, fear, and guilt in Fleischman's story find a universally recognizable shape.
Kirkus Reviews
At once serious and playful, this tale of a teenager's penitential journey to four corners of the country can be read on several levels. While attempting to kill himself on the highway after a humiliating social failure, Brent causes a fatal accident for another motorist, Lea Zamora. His sentence requires a personal act of atonement, if the victim's family so desires; Lea's mother hands him a bus pass and tells him to place pictorial whirligigs in Maine, Florida, Washington, and California as monuments to her daughter's ability to make people smile. Brent sets out willingly, armed with plywood, new tools, and an old construction manual. Characteristically of Fleischman (Seedfolks, 1997, etc.), the narrative structure is unconventional: Among the chapters in which Brent constructs and places the contraptions are independent short stories that feature the whirligigs, playing significant roles in the lives of others. Brent encounters a variety of travelers and new thoughts on the road, and by the end has lost much of the sense of isolation that made his earlier aspirations to be one of the in-crowd so important. The economy of language and sustained intensity of feeling are as strongly reminiscent of Cynthia Rylant's Missing May (1992) as are the wind toys and, at least in part, the theme, but Fleischman's cast and mood are more varied, sometimes even comic, and it's Brent's long physical journey, paralleled by his inner one, that teaches him to look at the world and himself with new eyes. |
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