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Book Introduction
The first time-slip fantasy from Lee Hee-young, author of the 400,000-selling bestseller "Paint."
“How can I avoid feeling sorry to my future self?”
Five Time Travels to Discover the Preciousness of the "Present Moment"
"Lee Hee-young's world, created by shaking and mixing fragments of time" _Jeong I-hyeon (novelist)
Lee Hee-young, author of 『Paint』, which won the 12th Changbi Youth Literature Award and received the warm love of 400,000 readers, has returned with her first time-slip fantasy 『Shaker』.
The novel begins 13 years later, with Now, who has suddenly turned 19, facing a situation where he might lose his current girlfriend if he saves his friend who died in an accident.
The author opens up a world of 'what if' where the past, present, and future are intertwined like a shaker mixing various drinks.
Now that she's been given a second chance at life, can she keep both love and friendship?
As we follow the five time travels in the work, the message we ultimately receive is that no matter when we go back in time, we must remain faithful to this very moment, right now.
Yesterday becomes today's past, today becomes tomorrow's past, and tomorrow becomes the day after that.
The only opportunity to change the past without time travel is the present.
Are we living in a moment where we won't feel sorry for our future selves? I hope the author's poignant and profound message will be remembered in every moment.
“How can I avoid feeling sorry to my future self?”
Five Time Travels to Discover the Preciousness of the "Present Moment"
"Lee Hee-young's world, created by shaking and mixing fragments of time" _Jeong I-hyeon (novelist)
Lee Hee-young, author of 『Paint』, which won the 12th Changbi Youth Literature Award and received the warm love of 400,000 readers, has returned with her first time-slip fantasy 『Shaker』.
The novel begins 13 years later, with Now, who has suddenly turned 19, facing a situation where he might lose his current girlfriend if he saves his friend who died in an accident.
The author opens up a world of 'what if' where the past, present, and future are intertwined like a shaker mixing various drinks.
Now that she's been given a second chance at life, can she keep both love and friendship?
As we follow the five time travels in the work, the message we ultimately receive is that no matter when we go back in time, we must remain faithful to this very moment, right now.
Yesterday becomes today's past, today becomes tomorrow's past, and tomorrow becomes the day after that.
The only opportunity to change the past without time travel is the present.
Are we living in a moment where we won't feel sorry for our future selves? I hope the author's poignant and profound message will be remembered in every moment.
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index
thirty-two
Nineteen
fifteen
twenty
Nineteen
thirty-two
Author's Note
Nineteen
fifteen
twenty
Nineteen
thirty-two
Author's Note
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Into the book
“Don’t you always live regretting the past and fearing the future?
“In the end, the guest’s time is always a mixture of past and future.”
A long, white hand began to slowly shake the shaker.
“There isn’t any at the moment.”
I heard a rustling sound in my ears.
An unidentified drink was being mixed in a shaker.
--- p.
141
The bartender placed a glass bottle on the table.
As I tilted the bottle, a clear liquid filled the transparent glass with a sloshing sound.
“Put in the time that has passed.”
This time, I opened the cap of another glass bottle, put the pourer in, and tilted it.
The transparent liquid turned pink.
It was like seeing magic before my eyes.
“After adding a little bit of time to come…….”
He slowly mixed the two drinks with a silver spoon.
Then I ate it all in one bite.
“If I drink it like this, what will be left?”
--- p.
119
I couldn't tell where the dream began and where reality ended.
If you think about it, human life itself is a time travel.
Because it's not like we were born because we wanted to, grow up because we wanted to, or grow old because we wanted to.
I was born without my will, became a student without my wishes, and became an adult without my hopes.
--- p.
219
The most beautiful time, the first love that I met so passionately.
They were two people who didn't even have time to hate each other.
Although it may be dismissed as the childish emotions of a rookie, it was a precious memory that will be kept deep in the heart.
In Haje's memory, the wall that remained was a high and solid wall that Na-u could never overcome.
“In the end, the guest’s time is always a mixture of past and future.”
A long, white hand began to slowly shake the shaker.
“There isn’t any at the moment.”
I heard a rustling sound in my ears.
An unidentified drink was being mixed in a shaker.
--- p.
141
The bartender placed a glass bottle on the table.
As I tilted the bottle, a clear liquid filled the transparent glass with a sloshing sound.
“Put in the time that has passed.”
This time, I opened the cap of another glass bottle, put the pourer in, and tilted it.
The transparent liquid turned pink.
It was like seeing magic before my eyes.
“After adding a little bit of time to come…….”
He slowly mixed the two drinks with a silver spoon.
Then I ate it all in one bite.
“If I drink it like this, what will be left?”
--- p.
119
I couldn't tell where the dream began and where reality ended.
If you think about it, human life itself is a time travel.
Because it's not like we were born because we wanted to, grow up because we wanted to, or grow old because we wanted to.
I was born without my will, became a student without my wishes, and became an adult without my hopes.
--- p.
219
The most beautiful time, the first love that I met so passionately.
They were two people who didn't even have time to hate each other.
Although it may be dismissed as the childish emotions of a rookie, it was a precious memory that will be kept deep in the heart.
In Haje's memory, the wall that remained was a high and solid wall that Na-u could never overcome.
--- p.236
Publisher's Review
Author Lee Hee-young, loved by 400,000 readers
The world of 'what if' that invites you
Shake the shaker and the door to that summer opens.
Five time travel adventures to save friends and protect love.
Author Lee Hee-young, who has continued to achieve success with diverse genres and deep works such as “Nana,” “Tester,” and “Salt Eye,” presents her first time-slip fantasy, “Shaker.”
The novel reminds us of the preciousness of the present moment through five time travels of the protagonist, who is at a crossroads between friendship and love.
Like a cocktail made with a variety of drinks, creating beautiful colors and flavors, when the past, present, and future overlap, the protagonist's struggles and good intentions as he seeks the best path within his reunited childhood come across even more clearly.
Now, within, and into the time of Haje, an invitation is placed before you.
“You said if I drink this, I’ll go wherever I want, right?
Now, 32, follows a cat he encounters by chance and ends up drinking a non-alcoholic cocktail mixed with a mysteriously colored drink.
The next day, when I open my eyes, I arrive in a world of nineteen stained with the most painful memories.
Fast forward 13 years, and right before my eyes, my friend Lee Nae, who died in a tragic accident, is still alive, and my current girlfriend Ha-je is my friend's lover.
In a second chance at life, Na-u meets the friend he longed for so long, but is torn between love and friendship.
If he saves the nineteen, Ha-je might be able to share the future with him, not with himself.
There are 5 days left until the accident.
Now, he wakes up in the fifteenth world, further back in time, to re-fasten the buttons of fate that were wrongly sewn from the beginning.
Now that we have the chance to fix the past, it's time for Na-u, not In-nae, to go to the promised place.
How will the changes here, which will open the entangled fates of three people, shape the future? That summer, ablaze with green, Na-u and Ha-je meet again.
17 years ago today, Inna and Haje exchanged numbers while talking about school.
So I thought I just had to send it to the promised place.
Instead, if Nowu brings up the subject of the academy and asks for her phone number naturally, the whole relationship can start anew.
(p.
105)
The most heartwarming and warm invitation from author Lee Hee-young.
“Let’s assume that this moment is purple.
In it, the red of the past and the blue of the future are appropriately mixed.
We believe that we live only in the present, but that is not possible in human life” (p.
As described in 266), the past, present, and future are intertwined in Shaker.
The novel invites readers into a world of mixed time, “showing the face of time, which is mercilessly cold but at the same time infinitely generous” (Oh Se-ran), and discovering the preciousness of “this moment, now.”
The story begins at the age of thirty-two, and Na-u goes back in time to face new opportunities, which gives him insight into things he didn't see then.
It was a past filled with regrets and longing rather than beautiful memories, but it was more intense than I thought and I lived my life doing my best at every moment.
Fifteen-year-old Na-u suppresses his feelings for his friend's girlfriend deep in his heart and protects their friendship, while nineteen-year-old Na-u and Ha-je, who experienced the death of their best friend, each endure the weight of grief and pain that is too much to bear in their own way.
Ha-je focuses on studying with all his might, fearing that if he fails to enter college, his parents' unfair criticism will fall on him, while Na-woo tries not to crumble helplessly in the sorrow of loss.
Meanwhile, Na-woo's friend Seong-jin, who is engrossed in 'crazy things' instead of studying even though the college entrance exam is just around the corner, reproaches himself for the pathetic dissuasion of those around him, but "boldly throws himself into an uncertain future" (p.
171) and walks silently along the road.
As time goes by, everyone becomes an adult, but as the weight of life increases, regrets and worries about the past and future deepen.
Now, who is 32 years old and has not been able to define what it means to be an adult, finds comfort in the teenage Now and his friends whom he meets again after five time travels.
And we get hints on how to draw a future with Ha-Je, which is filled with anxiety and fear as much as love.
That hint will also provide answers to those who have “mortgaged their precious present” (the author’s words) in a future that has not yet arrived.
The world of 'what if' that invites you
Shake the shaker and the door to that summer opens.
Five time travel adventures to save friends and protect love.
Author Lee Hee-young, who has continued to achieve success with diverse genres and deep works such as “Nana,” “Tester,” and “Salt Eye,” presents her first time-slip fantasy, “Shaker.”
The novel reminds us of the preciousness of the present moment through five time travels of the protagonist, who is at a crossroads between friendship and love.
Like a cocktail made with a variety of drinks, creating beautiful colors and flavors, when the past, present, and future overlap, the protagonist's struggles and good intentions as he seeks the best path within his reunited childhood come across even more clearly.
Now, within, and into the time of Haje, an invitation is placed before you.
“You said if I drink this, I’ll go wherever I want, right?
Now, 32, follows a cat he encounters by chance and ends up drinking a non-alcoholic cocktail mixed with a mysteriously colored drink.
The next day, when I open my eyes, I arrive in a world of nineteen stained with the most painful memories.
Fast forward 13 years, and right before my eyes, my friend Lee Nae, who died in a tragic accident, is still alive, and my current girlfriend Ha-je is my friend's lover.
In a second chance at life, Na-u meets the friend he longed for so long, but is torn between love and friendship.
If he saves the nineteen, Ha-je might be able to share the future with him, not with himself.
There are 5 days left until the accident.
Now, he wakes up in the fifteenth world, further back in time, to re-fasten the buttons of fate that were wrongly sewn from the beginning.
Now that we have the chance to fix the past, it's time for Na-u, not In-nae, to go to the promised place.
How will the changes here, which will open the entangled fates of three people, shape the future? That summer, ablaze with green, Na-u and Ha-je meet again.
17 years ago today, Inna and Haje exchanged numbers while talking about school.
So I thought I just had to send it to the promised place.
Instead, if Nowu brings up the subject of the academy and asks for her phone number naturally, the whole relationship can start anew.
(p.
105)
The most heartwarming and warm invitation from author Lee Hee-young.
“Let’s assume that this moment is purple.
In it, the red of the past and the blue of the future are appropriately mixed.
We believe that we live only in the present, but that is not possible in human life” (p.
As described in 266), the past, present, and future are intertwined in Shaker.
The novel invites readers into a world of mixed time, “showing the face of time, which is mercilessly cold but at the same time infinitely generous” (Oh Se-ran), and discovering the preciousness of “this moment, now.”
The story begins at the age of thirty-two, and Na-u goes back in time to face new opportunities, which gives him insight into things he didn't see then.
It was a past filled with regrets and longing rather than beautiful memories, but it was more intense than I thought and I lived my life doing my best at every moment.
Fifteen-year-old Na-u suppresses his feelings for his friend's girlfriend deep in his heart and protects their friendship, while nineteen-year-old Na-u and Ha-je, who experienced the death of their best friend, each endure the weight of grief and pain that is too much to bear in their own way.
Ha-je focuses on studying with all his might, fearing that if he fails to enter college, his parents' unfair criticism will fall on him, while Na-woo tries not to crumble helplessly in the sorrow of loss.
Meanwhile, Na-woo's friend Seong-jin, who is engrossed in 'crazy things' instead of studying even though the college entrance exam is just around the corner, reproaches himself for the pathetic dissuasion of those around him, but "boldly throws himself into an uncertain future" (p.
171) and walks silently along the road.
As time goes by, everyone becomes an adult, but as the weight of life increases, regrets and worries about the past and future deepen.
Now, who is 32 years old and has not been able to define what it means to be an adult, finds comfort in the teenage Now and his friends whom he meets again after five time travels.
And we get hints on how to draw a future with Ha-Je, which is filled with anxiety and fear as much as love.
That hint will also provide answers to those who have “mortgaged their precious present” (the author’s words) in a future that has not yet arrived.
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: May 8, 2024
- Page count, weight, size: 267 pages | 352g | 140*205*18mm
- ISBN13: 9791168341906
- ISBN10: 1168341906
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