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스노볼 드라이브
오늘의 젊은 작가 시리즈 31권. 조예은 장편소설. 피부에 닿자마자 발진을 일으키고 태우지 않으면 녹지 않는 '방부제 눈'이 내리는 재난의 시기를 배경으로, 10대의 절반이 눈 아래 묻힌 채 성인이 되어 버린 두 인물의 시간들을 애틋하고도 경쾌하게 그려 낸 조예은표 디스토피아 소설이다.
소설가 조예은은 전작 <뉴서울파크 젤리장수 대학살>, <칵테일, 러브, 좀비>를 통해 일상에 침투한 작은 종말의 조짐들을 꾸준히 그려 왔다. 이번 소설에서는 그 무대를 전 세계로 확장해 재앙 후의 일상이라는 길고도 막막한 삶의 아이러니를 한층 치열하게 보여 준다.
다 망해 버리기를 습관처럼 중얼거리던 일상과, 바람대로 세상이 무너져 버린 뒤에야 끝까지 살아남기 위해 노력하는 삶의 아이러니. 전 인류적 재앙이 낯설지 않은 지금이 모루와 이월의 여정을 바로 곁에서 함께할 수 있는 가장 적절한 때일 것이다.
소설가 조예은은 전작 <뉴서울파크 젤리장수 대학살>, <칵테일, 러브, 좀비>를 통해 일상에 침투한 작은 종말의 조짐들을 꾸준히 그려 왔다. 이번 소설에서는 그 무대를 전 세계로 확장해 재앙 후의 일상이라는 길고도 막막한 삶의 아이러니를 한층 치열하게 보여 준다.
다 망해 버리기를 습관처럼 중얼거리던 일상과, 바람대로 세상이 무너져 버린 뒤에야 끝까지 살아남기 위해 노력하는 삶의 아이러니. 전 인류적 재앙이 낯설지 않은 지금이 모루와 이월의 여정을 바로 곁에서 함께할 수 있는 가장 적절한 때일 것이다.
236 pages, Hardcover
Published February 15, 2021
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February 9, 2022
honestly… it really was going somewhere until it suddenly halted. should have been double the length of pages to actually complete the story because we were only getting started? disappointing. so the story is about the time that artificial, unmelting snow started to fall around the world, starting in a korean town. alternating between the perspectives of baek moru (a middle school student at the time) and … i can’t even remember the boy’s name, her rich but outcast classmate who saves her during the first ‘snow’fall, that did i mention gives allergic reactions to people, to the point of killing them…
i expected a love story, a parallel the lyrics of ‘antifreeze’ by the black skirts, but instead, the story was more about the boy’s trauma from his dog dying in childhood than it was about them searching for moru’s missing aunt together (a journey that started only on the LAST PAGE.) significantly, rich boy’s father owns a factory, the work of which he did remained unmentioned because the boy didn’t even know himself, except for the graphic chapter in which he went to his father’s work and discovered dripping sacks of bleeding animal corpses, containing many dogs that looked like his own. the dad described his job as smth like discovering how to manufacture beauty(?) (also his dog escaped from his arms at the factory and he heard it get shot… literally what?) his stepmother was the vice-principal, with a snowglobe obsession. to the obvious eye… the dad’s mysterious job is clearly the reason for this snowfall- i guess he wanted to please the stepmother or something. but was any of this said? NO. no big reveal, no more than the mention of those two facts in passing without actual proof of a connection.
moreover, i should mention that moru’s mother began to work for the ‘snow incineration factory’ where the artifical snow was sent from everywhere in korea to their town, the epicenter reduced to nothing but a hopeless wasteland, and dies from the harmful fake snow exposure. once the main character moru goes to work there, living in the dorms, her aunt back home who had lived with her and had protested about her working there, goes missing after a final driving job in which she helps lee-wol bury his stepmother’s body against his father’s wishes, ending in an encounter with gangs in which she sends lee-wol to safety, entrusting him with a keychain of her niece’s childhood photo, and he leaves a snowglobe in her van, which moru discovers. a lot of loose ends here, what was the point in the author giving them to us, when it was for the characters to work out themselves? and their useless asses never did. can’t blame them though, they only got to graduate middle school 😐
i wouldn’t count this story as YA, but it was definitely a failed dystopia. there was potential for romance if the story continued, (but like the story said quite early on, “고작 한 번의 사건으로 친절한 우리 인연이 된다거나 하는 건 청소년 드라마에서 나오는 일이었다”) and if they’d actually searched for the aunt WITHIN the story, but at least i can always reread 나인 for a similar, but successful, version of that plot ❄️
ah, rich boy had the weirdest name ever. lee lee-wol. what on earth??? as if moru wasn’t weird enough (literally means ‘anvil’) also his alternating between calling his stepmom ‘stepmom’ and ‘mom’ made it confusing, he referred to his real mother as ‘mom’ but from some point started calling his stepmom as ‘mom’…
i did record some quotes i liked, but barely anything made the cut. a lot of fake-deep quotes in there, when they’re just literal life observations. (like “one must have something they like, to keep on going in this world.” NO SHIT?)
“너 친구 집 와 보는 거 처음이지.”
“응.”
“그럴 줄 알았어.”
(‘it’s your first time visiting a friend’s house, isn’t it.’
‘yeah.’
‘i could tell.’)
(it was funny in the context but i again need to criticise how her character SUDDENLY changed from meek and quiet to all badass and snapping back and swearing. did the author decide she wanted to rewrite her personality halfway through?)
“발바닥에 박힌 유리조각처럼 한 발 한 발 내디딜 때마다 나를 아프게 찌른다.” (pretttyyyy huuuurts 🎶 don’t even rmbr what she was talking about here though.)
my heart, reviewing this story, is colder than the snow covered town of baekyoung 🌨☃️ likeable character was moru’s friend at the dorms, forgot her name though. and what was even the point in writing the whole black market going on at the workplace thing? she sold apple scented moisturiser… okay? and they never got caught so there was no point whatsoever. ig it was just to make the whole thing with lee-wol being special for getting the only grape scent. MADE NO SENSE.
the one redeeming point is that it was engaging. with the promise of SOMETHING happening… i kept on reading. and what a mistake that was. 😶🌫️
i expected a love story, a parallel the lyrics of ‘antifreeze’ by the black skirts, but instead, the story was more about the boy’s trauma from his dog dying in childhood than it was about them searching for moru’s missing aunt together (a journey that started only on the LAST PAGE.) significantly, rich boy’s father owns a factory, the work of which he did remained unmentioned because the boy didn’t even know himself, except for the graphic chapter in which he went to his father’s work and discovered dripping sacks of bleeding animal corpses, containing many dogs that looked like his own. the dad described his job as smth like discovering how to manufacture beauty(?) (also his dog escaped from his arms at the factory and he heard it get shot… literally what?) his stepmother was the vice-principal, with a snowglobe obsession. to the obvious eye… the dad’s mysterious job is clearly the reason for this snowfall- i guess he wanted to please the stepmother or something. but was any of this said? NO. no big reveal, no more than the mention of those two facts in passing without actual proof of a connection.
moreover, i should mention that moru’s mother began to work for the ‘snow incineration factory’ where the artifical snow was sent from everywhere in korea to their town, the epicenter reduced to nothing but a hopeless wasteland, and dies from the harmful fake snow exposure. once the main character moru goes to work there, living in the dorms, her aunt back home who had lived with her and had protested about her working there, goes missing after a final driving job in which she helps lee-wol bury his stepmother’s body against his father’s wishes, ending in an encounter with gangs in which she sends lee-wol to safety, entrusting him with a keychain of her niece’s childhood photo, and he leaves a snowglobe in her van, which moru discovers. a lot of loose ends here, what was the point in the author giving them to us, when it was for the characters to work out themselves? and their useless asses never did. can’t blame them though, they only got to graduate middle school 😐
i wouldn’t count this story as YA, but it was definitely a failed dystopia. there was potential for romance if the story continued, (but like the story said quite early on, “고작 한 번의 사건으로 친절한 우리 인연이 된다거나 하는 건 청소년 드라마에서 나오는 일이었다”) and if they’d actually searched for the aunt WITHIN the story, but at least i can always reread 나인 for a similar, but successful, version of that plot ❄️
ah, rich boy had the weirdest name ever. lee lee-wol. what on earth??? as if moru wasn’t weird enough (literally means ‘anvil’) also his alternating between calling his stepmom ‘stepmom’ and ‘mom’ made it confusing, he referred to his real mother as ‘mom’ but from some point started calling his stepmom as ‘mom’…
i did record some quotes i liked, but barely anything made the cut. a lot of fake-deep quotes in there, when they’re just literal life observations. (like “one must have something they like, to keep on going in this world.” NO SHIT?)
“너 친구 집 와 보는 거 처음이지.”
“응.”
“그럴 줄 알았어.”
(‘it’s your first time visiting a friend’s house, isn’t it.’
‘yeah.’
‘i could tell.’)
(it was funny in the context but i again need to criticise how her character SUDDENLY changed from meek and quiet to all badass and snapping back and swearing. did the author decide she wanted to rewrite her personality halfway through?)
“발바닥에 박힌 유리조각처럼 한 발 한 발 내디딜 때마다 나를 아프게 찌른다.” (pretttyyyy huuuurts 🎶 don’t even rmbr what she was talking about here though.)
my heart, reviewing this story, is colder than the snow covered town of baekyoung 🌨☃️ likeable character was moru’s friend at the dorms, forgot her name though. and what was even the point in writing the whole black market going on at the workplace thing? she sold apple scented moisturiser… okay? and they never got caught so there was no point whatsoever. ig it was just to make the whole thing with lee-wol being special for getting the only grape scent. MADE NO SENSE.
the one redeeming point is that it was engaging. with the promise of SOMETHING happening… i kept on reading. and what a mistake that was. 😶🌫️
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February 21, 2022
Loved it
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