{"product_id":"잘-가-안녕","title":"Goodbye, Farewell","description":"A warm farewell from Kim Dong-soo, author of The Day I Caught a Cold, this beautiful picture book serves as a requiem for the souls of animals departing their weary lives on this earth, and offers a quiet reflection on human civilization's impact on nature and life. Roadkill: The Bodies No One Cares For. As dusk settles over the street, a large truck sits parked in the middle of a dim road, its headlights still on as if it had just stopped mid-drive. From the shadows across the way, a cat watches tensely. Something lies crushed beneath the truck's front wheel. The text is just one line: \"Thud. A puppy was hit by the truck and died.\" This picture book begins with striking, uncomfortable honesty—it's a story about roadkill, about animals who lose their lives to cars. It's about creatures clinging to a precarious existence on land carved up by humans, only to become bodies that tumble across the road, unclaimed and unmourned. Really, it's a story about all the world's innocent deaths—the kind we wince at for a moment, then quickly forget. We turn the page. The darkness has deepened. The truck is gone. Someone lifts the puppy up. She has an unexpected head of dreadlocks, grass-green clothing, and a wrinkled face—an old woman who seems somehow extraordinary. Like a wrinkled, 21st-century Princess Bari who tends to the souls and wounds of dead animals, she pulls a handcart home, toward a house standing alone, swallowed in deep darkness. The next scene reveals a brightly lit room where the dead animals lie: a snake severed clean in two, an owl with a torn belly and patchy feathers, a frog flattened like paper by a car tire, a weasel... a water deer, and the black puppy from the truck, its belly torn open with entrails exposed. The artist doesn't shy away from showing the animals' wounds plainly. And there, all through the night, the grandmother tends to each torn, burst, and broken body with the utmost care. She speaks to them gently, as though they were still alive, soothing them, stitching their wounds, wrapping bandages, closing eyes left open, and tucking them under warm blankets. Her low murmurs and tender touch slowly wash away the chaos, pain, fear, and anger that had seeped into the animals' bodies and souls. Why is it that we, too, feel comforted watching this? A fantasy of compassion, comfort, and healing for all the wounded of this world. The grandmother sets out once more. Long before dawn, she walks and walks down a dark predawn road, passing through an unknown forest path. At the end of the path, a white duck waits as if to greet her. She arrives at last at the water's edge, where she lays the animals down in a small boat, along with pretty flowers. Where is this place? Is it the boundary between this world and the next? Softly glowing lotus lanterns gather around the boat as if to escort it. White ducks pull the boat along. It drifts gently down the calm water. Call it a modern-day Princess Bari, call it a cleansing ritual captured in a picture book, call it a fantasy of compassion, comfort, and hope for all living things. A mysterious grandmother of unknown origin reaches out with a warm, healing touch to animals who met sudden, tragic deaths—and to all the wounded souls of this world. She stands alone on an empty street, with no people, no cars. She waves toward the eastern sky, now blushing soft pink with the coming dawn. Her gentle touch and quiet voice stir something deep within us. This is a requiem for the souls of animals departing their weary lives on this earth, a picture book of reflection on human civilization's toll on nature and life, and a beautiful book that gently pats the shoulder of every living being.","brand":"IBOOKPARK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49623840227556,"sku":"1455068092","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/9788\/6692\/files\/x9788943310509.jpg?v=1786422362","url":"https:\/\/ibookpark.com\/en\/products\/%ec%9e%98-%ea%b0%80-%ec%95%88%eb%85%95","provider":"IBOOKPARK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}