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[ 책 소개 ]
* ALA Best Books for Young Adults
* Michael L. Printz Award 수상작
* Orange Prize for New Writers
* The Guardian Award for Children's Fiction
* The Branford Boase Award for a First Novel
* LA Times Book Prize
* Whitbread Children's Book Award
* Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
국내에서는 "내가 사는 이유"라는 제목으로 번역서가 출간된 책입니다.
이 소설의 시대적 배경은 가까운 미래이며, 전쟁으로 엉망이 되어버린 세계에서 스스로 존재 이유를 찾아 나선 열다섯 살 소녀 데이지의 모험을 그린 성장소설입니다. 서구 청소년문학계에서 최고 권위를 인정받는 마이클 프린츠 상(美)과 가디언 상(英)을 석권한 화제작이며, 현재 영국과 미국의 각급 학교에서 필독서로 널리 읽히고 있습니다. 이러한 인기에 힘입어 2007년 영국 BBC 라디오에서 드라마로 제작, 방송하기도 했습니다.
미국 뉴욕에 사는 15세 소녀 데이지는 계모의 미움을 받아 영국에 사는 친척에게로 보내집니다. 뉴욕이란 대도시에서 태어나 줄곧 살아온 데이지에게 영국에서의 시골 생활은 신선한 문화적 충격을 줍니다. 거기서 그녀는 곧 사촌들과 친해지고, 첫눈에 반한 에드먼드와 사랑에 빠집니다.
이야기는 데이지의 이모인 펜이 평화 회의에 참석하러 노르웨이 오슬로로 출장 간 사이, 정체불명의 적군이 영국을 침공하여 전쟁이 일어나면서 빠르게 전개됩니다. 영국은 방어 불능의 상태가 되고, 어른 없이 남겨진 아이들은 이내 혼란을 극복하고 농장을 그들만의 유토피아로 건설해 나갑니다.
그러나 전쟁의 마수는 그들만의 평화를 내버려두지 않고, 마을에 군인들이 진주하면서 변화가 일어납니다. 농장을 점령한 군인들이 데이지와 그녀의 어린 사촌인 파이퍼를 다른 지방으로 보내는 바람에 사촌들과 헤어져 맥에보이 소령 부부와 함께 살게 됩니다.
우여곡절 끝에 다른 사촌들이 있는 곳을 알아낸 두 소녀는 길고 험난한 여행길에 오릅니다. 전쟁의 공포, 죽음의 위협과 싸우며 마침내 원래 살던 집에 도착하나, 에드먼드와 다른 사촌들의 흔적은 어디에도 없고, 낙담한 데이지는 어쩌면 에드먼드가 죽었을지도 모른다는 생각에 괴로워합니다.
그러던 어느 날, 데이지가 집을 뒤지고 있을 때 아빠로 부터 전화가 걸려 오고, 국제기구의 도움을 받아 뉴욕 집으로 돌아갈 수 있게 됩니다.
그로부터 6년 뒤, 길고 지루한 전쟁이 끝나고 데이지는 그토록 그리던 영국으로 돌아갑니다. 그러나 거기서 육체적으로나 정신적으로나 완전히 망가진 ‘폐인’ 에드먼드를 발견하는데…….
이 책은 “이상한 나라의 여왕”이라는 극찬을 받을 만큼 서구에서는 이미 단 3권의 성장소설로 대가 반열에 오른 멕 로소프의 작가적 역량을 확인할 수 있는 대표작입니다. 영국 시골 마을의 아름다운 자연 풍광을 무대로 펼쳐지는, 그로테스크하면서도 유려한 존재의 모험/사랑 이야기는 근래에 보기 드문 빼어난 문학적 성취 중 하나로 평가받고 있습니다.
[ 서지 정보 ]
Paperback: 194 pages
ISBN-10: 0553376055
ISBN-13: 978-0553376050
책 크기: 20.2 cm x 13 cm
[ 영문 서평 ]
Book Description
“Every war has turning points and every person too.”
Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from Manhattan to England to visit her aunt and cousins she’s never met: three boys near her age, and their little sister. Her aunt goes away on business soon after Daisy arrives. The next day bombs go off as London is attacked and occupied by an unnamed enemy.
As power fails, and systems fail, the farm becomes more isolated. Despite the war, it’s a kind of Eden, with no adults in charge and no rules, a place where Daisy’s uncanny bond with her cousins grows into something rare and extraordinary. But the war is everywhere, and Daisy and her cousins must lead each other into a world that is unknown in the scariest, most elemental way.
A riveting and astonishing story.
Publishers Weekly
This riveting first novel paints a frighteningly realistic picture of a world war breaking out in the 21st century. Told from the point of view of 15-year-old Manhattan native Daisy, the novel follows her arrival and her stay with cousins on a remote farm in England. Soon after Daisy settles into their farmhouse, her Aunt Penn becomes stranded in Oslo and terrorists invade and occupy England. Daisy's candid, intelligent narrative draws readers into her very private world, which appears almost utopian at first with no adult supervision (especially by contrast with her home life with her widowed father and his new wife). The heroine finds herself falling in love with cousin Edmond, and the author credibly creates a world in which social taboos are temporarily erased. When soldiers usurp the farm, they send the girls off separately from the boys, and Daisy becomes determined to keep herself and her youngest cousin, Piper, alive. Like the ripple effects of paranoia and panic in society, the changes within Daisy do not occur all at once, but they have dramatic effects. In the span of a few months, she goes from a self-centered, disgruntled teen to a courageous survivor motivated by love and compassion. How she comes to understand the effects the war has had on others provides the greatest evidence of her growth, as well as her motivation to get through to those who seem lost to war's consequences. Teens may feel that they have experienced a war themselves as they vicariously witness Daisy's worst nightmares. Like the heroine, readers will emerge from the rubble much shaken, a little wiser and with perhaps a greater sense of humanity.
School Library Journal
Daisy, 15, a troubled New York City teen with a distant father, a wicked (and pregnant) stepmother, and an eating disorder, is sent to England to stay on a rambling farm with her deceased mother's sister's family. It is made up of Aunt Penn "who always has Important Work To Do Related to the Peace Process" and her brood of children: Osbert, 16; 14-year-old twins Isaac and Edmond; and 9-year-old Piper. As the kids spend more and more time together, Daisy warms to them, beginning to tune in to a seemingly psychic bond that the siblings share. When Aunt Penn travels to Oslo, Daisy begins a sexual relationship with Edmond. At the same time, hostile forces invade England. Originally enjoying the freedom of a world that seems to have forgotten them, the cousins are inevitably separated, leaving Piper and Daisy to struggle across the countryside and rejoin the others. Daisy's voice is uneven, being at times teenage vapid, while elsewhere sporting a vocabulary rich with 50-cent words, phrases, and references. In addition, Rosoff barely scratches the surface of the material at hand. At times, this is both intentional and effective (the enemy is never named) but for the most part the dearth of explanation creates insurmountable questions around the basic mechanisms of the plot. There is no explanation of how a small force could take out all communications (including cell phones) and proceed to overrun and to control an entire country. Perhaps even stranger, the ramifications of psychic abilities and underage sexual relationships between first cousins is never addressed.
Booklist *Starred Review*
A 15-year-old, contemporary urbanite named Daisy, sent to England to summer with relatives, falls in love with her aunt's "oldy worldy" farm and her soulful cousins--especially Edmond, with whom she forms "the world's most inappropriate case of sexual obsession." Matters veer in a startling direction when terrorists strike while Daisy's aunt is out of the country, war erupts, and soldiers divide the cousins by gender between two guardians. Determined to rejoin Edmond, Daisy and her youngest cousin embark upon a dangerous journey that brings them face to face with horrific violence and undreamt-of deprivation. Just prior to the hopeful conclusion, Rosoff introduces a jolting leap forward in time accompanied by an evocative graphic device that will undoubtedly spark lively discussions. As for the incestuous romance, Daisy and Edmond's separation for most of the novel and the obvious emotional sustenance Daisy draws from their bond sensitively shift the focus away from the relationship's implicit (and potentially discomfiting) physical dimension. More central to the potency of Rosoff's debut, though, is the ominous prognostication of what a third world war might look like, and the opportunity it provides for teens to imagine themselves, like Daisy, exhibiting courage and resilience in roles traditionally occupied by earlier generations. |
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