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Sang young park books7/4/2023 ![]() This novel is bawdy, hilarious, heartbreaking, fearless.” -Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel “Sang Young Park is my new favorite writer, as in his work we see life in modern Korea in what I think of as a fuller way, due to the inclusion of queer lives there. Yet in time even Jaehee settles down, leaving Young alone to care for his ailing mother and find companionship in his relationships with a series of men, including one whose handsomeness is matched by his coldness, and another who might end up being the great love of his life. He and Jaehee, his female best friend and roommate, frequent nearby bars where they suppress their anxieties about their love lives, families, and money with rounds of soju and freezer-chilled Marlboro Reds. Young is a cynical yet fun-loving Korean student who pinballs from home to class to the beds of recent Tinder matches. Love in the Big City is an energetic, joyful, and moving novel that depicts both the glittering nighttime world of Seoul and the bleary-eyed morning-after. Longlisted for the 2023 Dublin Literary PrizeĪ fresh and unique debut novel by the bestselling young star of Korean queer fiction. ![]() Longlisted for the 2022 Booker International Prize ![]() BY Sang Young Park / TRanslated from korean BY Anton Hur ![]()
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