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[ 책 소개 ]
* Newbery Honor 수상작
* National Book Award (Young People's Literature) 수상작
* Michael L. Printz Honor 수상작
전 세계에서 가장 권위있는 청소년 문학상인 뉴베리상뿐 아니라 미국 내셔널 북 어워드, 미국 마이클 L. 프린츠 상, 독일 복스테후더 불레 청소년 문학상 등을 수상하였고, 이미 영국, 독일, 프랑스, 스페인, 일본 등 11개국에서 번역되어 많은 아이들에게 읽히고 있는 SF소설의 고전 중 하나입니다. 우리나라에서도 "전갈의 아이"라는 제목으로 번역서가 출간된 명작 도서입니다.
이 책은 미래의 이야기지만 현재의 과학기술 발전 속도로 볼 때, 머지않아 실현될 가능성이 높은 인간복제의 문제를 심도있게 다룬 본격적인 SF 소설입니다. 생명을 연장하고, 불치의 병을 치료하기 위한 목적으로 인간복제가 이루어지는 미래 사회에서 체세포 복제로 태어난 Matteo Alacran이 겪게 되는 정체성의 혼란과 자신의 원래 DNA 주인인 마약세계의 제왕 El Patron을 둘러싼 이야기가 흥미진진하게 펼쳐집니다.
이 책의 배경은 인간이 복제되고, 자동차 대신 호버크라프트가 날아다니고, 하늘을 찌를 듯한 빌딩을 나선형 도로가 복잡하게 감싸고 있는 미래 시대입니다. 단순히 과학적 호기심이나 상상의 영역에 머물렀던 복제인간이 실제로 만들어진다면, 우리는 복제 인간, 즉 클론을 어떻게 생각해야 할까요? 인간으로서의 존엄성을 인정해 줘야 할까요? 그러나 질병 치료나 장기 공급 등을 위해 만들어진 하나의 도구라고 생각한다면? 그렇다면 이 책에서 말하듯이 클론은 가축으로 분류되어 인간을 위해 희생되어도 되는 걸까요?
복제인간을 둘러싼 첨단과학의 위험성에 대해 진지하게 생각해 보는 기회를 주는 책입니다.
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Edition : Paperback: 432 pages
ISBN-10: 0689852231
ISBN-13: 9780689852237
책 크기: 20.8 cm x 13.8 cm
[ 영문 서평 ]
Book Description
Matteo Alacran was not Born; He was Harvested. His DNA came from El Patron, lord of a country called Opium -- a strip of poppy fields lying between the United States and what was once called Mexico. Matt's first cell split and divided inside a petri dish. Then he was placed in the womb of a cow, where he continued the miraculous journey from embryo to fetus to baby. He is a boy now, but most consider him a monster -- except for El Patron. El Patron loves Matt as he loves himself, because Matt is himself. As Matt struggles to understand his existence, he is threatened by a sinister cast of characters, including El Patron's power-hungry family, and he is surrounded by a dangerous army of bodyguards. Escape is the only chance Matt has to survive. But escape from the Alacran Estate is no guarantee of freedom, because Matt is marked by his difference in ways he doesn't even suspect.
Publishers Weekly
In our Best Books citation, PW wrote, "In this eerily realistic depiction of society 100 years hence, the wealthy class harvests the organs of clones to prolong their lives. Farmer explores vital and soul-searching questions about what it means to be human."
Alan Review
Looks can be deceiving. Though he has grown up in relative isolation, young Mateo Alacr? looks like a normal boy of six. Yet on the day he meets his first outsiders, he discovers he is anything but a normal boy. He is a clone. In a futuristic world in which clones are despised by humans and used only for medical purposes, Matt is an exception. He carries within him the DNA of the powerful drug lord El Patr?, and therefore, is treated to the finest life and education. As he grows and learns, he attempts to reconcile his love for El Patr? with the evil world the man has produced, a world in which millions of humans and animals are turned to zombies and many clones are slaughtered for their organs. Guided by a few friends who love and watch over him, Matt must summon the courage to flee to safety after El Patr?'s death, and the compassion to return and attempt to change the drug kingdom forever. Farmer presents a fresh look at the coming of age theme in her futuristic and controversial world of clones and zombies. Despite a rather hasty and almost simplistic ending to the novel, the plot is engaging, and the characters are well developed and sympathetic. High school students will connect with Matt as he grows from a frightened little boy to a young man who wrestles with difficult issues and decisions. 2002, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 380 pp., - Erin Nita Miller
KLIATT
In a future world where an evil empire called Opium is tucked in between the U.S. and Aztl? (formerly Mexico), a young clone named Matt comes of age. His foot is tattooed "Property of the Alacr? Estate"; he is the clone of El Patr?, the cruel 142-year-old ruler of Opium, a drug kingdom farmed by "eejits," brain-dead clones. Matt has not has his brain deadened; he is a favorite of El Patr?, reminding him of his lost youth, though the man's nasty, conspiring family hates Matt, considering him "livestock." Matt's other champions are a cook and a bodyguard, who conspire to save him from a fate of being harvested for organs for El Patr?. A girl named Mar? comes to love Matt, too, and when El Patr? dies and the remaining family try to kill Matt, all his friends work to help him escape from the Alacr? estate. Matt runs off to Aztl? but is captured and taken to an awful orphanage, which is more of a Nazi-style work camp. There he makes friends, helps incite a rebellion, and is thrown into a bone pit and almost dies. He escapes, finds Mar?, and returns at last to his inheritance, the Alacr? estate, with plans to undo the evil of El Patr?. This is a long but engrossing SF adventure by the Newbery Honor-winning author of A Girl Named Disaster, The Ear, the Eye and the Arm, and other books for young readers. Farmer grew up in Yuma, Arizona and evokes the landscape of this Mexican border area beautifully. Matt is an appealing hero, despised by many for being a clone but noble and brave in the face of the many hardships he encounters. He learns to value himself, ignoring the opinion of others, and comes to understand that he has the power to make change for good. This will appeal toadventure story lovers as well as SF fans. Category: Hardcover Fiction. KLIATT Codes
School Library Journal
Nancy Farmer's 2002 National Book Award winner and Newbery Honor book (Atheneum, 2002) takes listeners to a futuristic, but familiar, Central American landscape where a powerful drug lord includes his own clones among his possessions. Narrator Robert Ramirez does a solid job with a large cast of characters and the many Spanish words and phrases that heighten the story's authenticity.
Kirkus Reviews
Matt Alacr? has spent his youth secreted away in a secluded hut, his only knowledge of the world provided by his caregiver Celia and his view out the window on the white ocean of poppies growing all around. Matt is a clone, an outcast hated and feared as a beast by human society. When he uses an iron cooking pot to smash his window and goes out into the world, Matt sets into motion a fantastic adventure in a land called Opium, a strip of land between the US and a place once called Mexico. Opium is ruled by El Patr-n, a 142-year-old drug lord, inhabited by "eejits"-docile farm workers controlled by brain implants-and overseen by an army of bodyguards. Farmer's tale is a wild, futuristic coming-of-age story with a science-fiction twist: How do you find out who you are when what you are is a clone-a photograph-of a human being. How have you come to exist, and for what purpose? Can you ever expect to be more than what you were designed to be? As demonstrated in The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm (1994), Farmer has a talent for creating exciting tales in beautifully realized, unusual worlds. With undertones of vampires, Frankenstein, dragons' hoards, and killing fields, Matt's story turns out to be an inspiring tale of friendship, survival, hope, and transcendence. A must-read for SF fans.
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