Our Twisted Hero
- ISBN-10
- 0786866705
- ISBN-13
- 9780786866700
- Category
- Fiction / General
- Pages
- 122
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001-02-28
- Publisher
- Hyperion Books
- Author
- Mun-yŏl Yi
Description
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.
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