When the twelve-year-old narrator of Our Twisted Hero moves from
Seoul to a small provincial town and enrolls in the local school,
he's confident that his big-city sophistication will establish him
as a natural leader. But he immediately falls victim to a
charismatic and corrupt class monitor, who uses fear and violence
to keep the other students under his mysterious spell and to assure
his own supremacy in the school's social hierarchy. The teacher,
grateful to have such a well-behaved class, turns a blind eye to
the monitor's abuse of power. As the narrator attempts first to
seek justice and then to inspire his fellow students to revolt, he
finds himself in a fierce battle not just for his rights, but for
his soul. Soon he has set in motion an unexpected and unstoppable
chain of events.
This riveting allegory, in the tradition of Lord of the Flies,
starts as a simple power play within a children's classroom, but
turns into a chilling tale about the lust for power and desperate
need for acceptance that reside within us all.
Our Twisted Hero is Yi Munyol's first book ever to be published
in North America. With its classically unadorned style and
disturbing insights, it will astound readers unfamiliar with this
extraordinary writer of world standing.
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