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A dark, funny, deliciously different literary thriller about a
jaded hitman, set in the criminal underworld of Seoul 'Kill Bill
meets Murakami' D. B. John, author of Star of the North 'A work of
literary genius' Karen Dionne, internationally bestselling author
of Home 'I loved it!' M. W. Craven, author of The Puppet Show
'You'll be laughing out loud every five minutes' You-jeong Jeong,
author of The Good Son 'A mash-up of Tarantino and Camus set in
contemporary Seoul' Louisa Luna, author of Two Girls Down 'An
incredible cast of characters' Le monde 'Smart but lightning fast'
Brian Evenson, author of Last Days Plotters are just pawns like us.
A request comes in and they draw up the plans. There's someone
above them who tells them what to do. And above that person is
another plotter telling them what to do. You think that if you go
up there with a knife and stab the person at the very top, that'll
fix everything. But no-one's there. It's just an empty chair.
Reseng was raised by cantankerous Old Raccoon in the Library of
Dogs. To anyone asking, it's just an ordinary library. To anyone in
the know, it's a hub for Seoul's organised crime, and a place where
contract killings are plotted and planned. So it's no surprise that
Reseng has grown up to become one of the best hitmen in Seoul. He
takes orders from the plotters, carries out his grim duties, and
comforts himself afterwards with copious quantities of beer and his
two cats, Desk and Lampshade. But after he takes pity on a target
and lets her die how she chooses, he finds his every move is being
watched. Is he finally about to fall victim to his own game? And
why does that new female librarian at the library act so strangely?
Is he looking for his enemies in all the wrong places? Could he be
at the centre of a plot bigger than anything he's ever known?
Winner of the Munhakdongne Novel Award, South Korea's most
prestigious literary prize Cabinet 13 looks exactly like any normal
filing cabinet. Except this cabinet is filled with files on the
'symptomers', people whose weird abilities and bizarre experiences
might just mark the emergence of a new species. But to Mr Kong, the
harried office worker who spends his days looking after the
cabinet, the symptomers are just a headache; from the woman whose
doppelganger broke up with her boyfriend, to the man with a ginkgo
tree growing from his fingertip. And then there's that guy who
won't stop calling, asking to be turned into a cat... A richly
funny and fantastical novel about the strangeness at the heart of
even the most ordinary lives, from one of South Korea's most
acclaimed novelists. Translated by Sean Lin Halbert File Under:
Fiction [ 12,000 Cans of Beer | Memory Mosaicers | Will Execution
Inc. | Monkey of All Bombs ]
Kim Ch'un-Su is one of the most original poets in modern Korean
poetry. He was influenced by Rilke for a while, but embarked on a
series of his own poetic experiments culminating in what he calls
"the poetry of meaning." An avowed purist, he would not believe in
ideas, ideologies, or even history. His poems, in consequence, tend
to present only moments of vivid sensations and fantasies refracted
through his consciousness. The translator, Kim Jong-Gil, has won
the Modern Korean Literature Translation Award and the Poetry Prize
in Korea.
Kim Ch'un-Su is one of the most original poets in modern Korean
poetry. He was influenced by Rilke for a while, but embarked on a
series of his own poetic experiments culminating in what he calls
"the poetry of meaning." An avowed purist, he would not believe in
ideas, ideologies, or even history. His poems, in consequence, tend
to present only moments of vivid sensations and fantasies refracted
through his consciousness. The translator, Kim Jong-Gil, has won
the Modern Korean Literature Translation Award and the Poetry Prize
in Korea.
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