Sang Young Park
Love in the Big City
Love in the Big City
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Longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize
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.
Young is a cynical yet fun-loving Korean student who pinballs from home to class to the beds of recent Tinder matches. 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. 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.
Translated by Anton Hur. Description taken from the publisher.
Author: Sang Young Park
Editor: Peter Blackstock and Yvonne Cha
Publisher: Tilted Axis Press
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Year: 2021
Pages: 217
Language: English
ISBN: 9781911284659
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