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Translator's Note

The final story in the Memory Giver series, completed over 20 years.
Two-time Newbery Medalist and Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner
The final installment of Lois Lowry's iconic science fiction four-part series.
The final story in the classic young adult novel, The Messenger, The Blue Collector.

"good.
This is your journey and your fight.
You have to be brave.

“Find your talent and use that talent to save the person you love.”

Lois Lowry created a modern young adult science fiction novel. — The New York Times

An ideal society presented by Lois Lowry, a master of youth literature.
The new work Son of the Sun by Lois Lowry, a master of youth literature, has been published by Biryongso.
Lois Lowry, who is well known for her works such as The Giver, The Blue Gatherer, and The Messenger, which have already become classics in young adult literature, is a world-renowned American author who has won two Newbery Medals and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award.
Her new work, Son of the Sun, is the fourth and final story in the Giver of Memory series, which can be considered her signature SF series.
In her previous three novels, she set up a fictional society of the future and invited readers to consider the possibilities and implications of that society, which might one day come.
The Messenger, which depicted the dangers of pursuing perfect ideals in a thoroughly controlled society that prioritizes order and stability, and the Blue Gatherer, which spoke of hope in a barbaric society rife with violence and tyranny, now presents a way to heal the world by encapsulating and symbolizing only the best of both worlds.


Son of the Sun, the final installment in the series published 20 years after The Giver of Memory (1993), is the story of Claire, a girl who failed as a mother in a village community of mothers, birth mothers, and foster mothers, who wants a baby of her own and gets a real son.
The ending of this journey that has taken place over many years is ‘love.’
In other words, it can be said to be a story about maternal love, which is abstract, yet the most powerful and fundamental energy.

As soon as this novel was published, The New York Times devoted a significant amount of space to it, an unprecedented amount for a young adult book, and published a rave review, shedding new light on Laurie's work.
In particular, he expressed his awe for her with the sentence, "Rory created the current world of young adult science fiction." This originality is probably the reason why the Giver series has captivated young readers not only around the world but also in Korea for 20 years.


“Go, this is your journey and your fight.”
Claire, the "girl mother" who sets out to find her son, on a touching and heartbreaking journey.

The fact that the son added to the Memory Giver series, which was originally planned as a trilogy, can be said to have also been influenced by the author's personal pain.
Having experienced the pain of losing her Air Force pilot son while serving in the military, Laurie also incorporates that sadness into this novel.

A community village where everyone lives according to their own role.
Claire was given her role as a mother at the age of twelve.
Claire, who was given the role of a mother after undergoing a revision, gives birth to a baby but is unable to give birth safely.
Because she did not take the pills that prevent her from feeling maternal and other emotions like other mothers, Claire gradually develops maternal love for her baby.
In this society, babies are sent to a communal foster care center or daycare center as soon as they are born, raised communally, and are assigned parents when they reach a certain age.
Claire sets out to find her son, filled with growing love and compassion.
The novel can be said to be Claire's journey to find her stolen son, as well as the process of healing the longing and pain of the writer Laurie for his dead son.
In order to find her son, Claire gives the 'Master of the Deal' her greatest 'talent': her own youth and health.
Ultimately, Claire ages rapidly because her talents were traded for her son.
The process of such a transaction is the most concise and symbolic depiction of parents growing old as time passes while raising their children.
But the one who brought back the mother's original appearance was none other than her son Gabriel.
The constant longing for her mother and the mother's maternal love for her son combine to create the miracle of youthful return, and this kind of love is the ultimate 'answer' presented by author Laurie.


Love: The Last Question and Answer Left for Future Society

In this novel, Claire, the 'mother', instead of focusing on building an ideal world like in her previous work, The Giver, Lois Lowry focuses on protecting and maintaining that ideal society.
And he says that the only way to defeat the master of the trade and protect society is 'love'.
Love between parents and children, love between spouses, love between neighbors, love for humanity… … .


I wanted to tell her that I had waited my whole life for her to come visit, that I knew the sacrifices she had made for me, and that I didn't care how old she got.
I wanted to say that the only thing that matters is the fact that we are together.
_ From the text

Gabe defeats the Master of the Deal, a force of evil, by filling him with the love of his mother, Claire.
Gabe's talent of 'conjugation' to revive his dying mother can be said to be the 'essence of love' in that respect.
Gabe learns to feel the emotions of others and love through his interactions with advisors like Matthew, and ultimately learns that the absence of love is evil.