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[ 책 소개 ]
* Michael L. Printz Honor 수상작
* ALA Best Book for Young Readers
* An LA Times Book Prize Finalist
* Booklist Best Book of the Year
* Horn Book Fanfare Best Book of the Year
* Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
* A Booklist Editors' Choice
영화로도 큰 성공을 거둔 "안녕 헤이즐(잘못은 우리 별에 있어)"을 비롯해서 우리나라에도 다수의 번역서가 출간된 미국의 대표적인 젊은 스타 작가 존 그린의 대표작 중 하나입니다. 이 책 역시 국내에서 "이름을 말해줘"라는 제목으로 번역서가 출간되었습니다.
열아홉 살 콜린은 오늘 열아홉 번째 캐서린에게 또 다시 차였습니다. 캐서린이라는 이름의 여자만 보면 사랑에 빠지는 천재 소년 콜린은, 캐서린이라는 이름의 여자들에게 매번 차였고, 오늘로 무려 열아홉 번째 캐서린에게 이별을 통보받은 것입니다. 어릴 때부터 신동 소리를 들으며 자랐지만 어째서 연애에 있어서만큼은 영 신통치가 않은 것인가! 콜린은 더 이상 비극의 주인공이 되지 않기 위해 자신의 특기를 살려 사랑을 수학 공식으로 만들어버리기로 결심합니다. 엉뚱하고 유머러스한 친구 하산과 함께 자동차 여행을 하며 실연의 아픔을 잊고, ‘사랑의 공식’이라는 일생일대의 위대한 업적을 남기기 위해 길을 떠난 콜린. 그의 사랑은 정말 그래프와 공식으로 완성될 수 있을까요?
머리는 똑똑하지만 사랑에는 서툴기 그지없는 한 소년이 자신만의 방식으로 사랑과 자아를 찾아가는 이 유쾌한 여정은 출간 즉시 아마존 베스트셀러를 기록하며 지금까지 많은 독자들의 열광적인 지지를 얻고 있습니다. 미국도서관협회가 최고의 소설로 선정하고, 북리스트, 혼북, 커커스 등 공신력 있는 수많은 서평 매체들이 앞다투어 ‘올해의 책’으로 선정한 존 그린의 대표작입니다.
[ 서지 정보 ]
Paperback: 272 pages
ISBN-10: 9780142410707
ISBN-13: 978-0142410707
책 크기: 13.8 cm x 20.8 cm
[ 영문 서평 ]
Book Description
When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton’s type is girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact. On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washed-up child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an overweight, Judge Judy–loving best friend riding shotgun--but no Katherines. Colin is on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which he hopes will predict the future of any relationship, avenge Dumpees everywhere, and finally win him the girl. Love, friendship, and a dead Austro-Hungarian archduke add up to surprising and heart-changing conclusions in this ingeniously layered comic novel about reinventing oneself.
School Library Journal
Printz medalist John Green's main character in this novel (Dutton, 2006) is a loner who has a hard time making friends (though no trouble finding girlfriends) and a quirky taste for anagrams and odd facts. At the end of his senior year of high school, Colin Singleton has just been dumped by a girl named Katherine (it's the 19th time he's been dumped). Stuck in a quagmire of indecision about his future and egged on by his friend Hassan, Colin sets out on an aimless road trip until his attention is caught by a sign for the burial place of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in the middle of rural Tennessee. Colin and Hassan find friends, jobs, and fulfill Colin's quest to understand why he is always being dumped by his girlfriends. He develops a mathematical theorem that focuses on predicting the outcome of romantic relationships. Along the way, there is plenty of humor in the story. Narrator Jeff Woodman creates a distinct and lively persona for each character, complete with accents and inflections. Colin's uniquely naïve attributes combine with his obvious intelligence and checkered romantic past to create a character that Woodman brings to life quite vividly. The math angle and humorous anagrams may create additional interest for some teens. Although the story line is a bit thin, the plot's identity concerns make this an interesting choice for high school and public library collections for older teens.
Booklist
Green follows his Printz-winning Looking for Alaska (2005) with another sharp, intelligent story, this one full of mathematical problems, historical references, word puzzles, and footnotes. Colin Singleton believes he is a washed-up child prodigy. A graduating valedictorian with a talent for creating anagrams, he fears he'll never do anything to classify him as a genius. To make matters worse, he has just been dumped by his most recent girlfriend (all of them have been named Katherine), and he's inconsolable. What better time for a road trip! He and his buddy Hassan load up the gray Olds (Satan's Hearse) and leave Chicago. They make it as far as Gutshot, Tennessee, where they stop to tour the gravesite of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and meet a girl who isn't named Katherine. It's this girl, Lindsey, who helps Colin work on a mathematical theorem to predict the duration of romantic relationships. The laugh-out-loud humor ranges from delightfully sophomoric to subtly intellectual, and the boys' sarcastic repartee will help readers navigate the slower parts of the story, which involve local history interviews. The idea behind the book is that everyone's story counts, and what Colin's contributes to the world, no matter how small it may seem to him, will, indeed, matter. An appendix explaining the complex math is "fantastic," or as the anagrammatically inclined Green might have it, it's enough to make "cats faint." |
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