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The Cabinet Un-su Kim

The Cabinet By Un-su Kim

The Cabinet by Un-su Kim


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Summary

A mind-bending work of literary fiction from one of South Korea's most acclaimed novelists.

The Cabinet Summary

The Cabinet by Un-su Kim

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 ]

The Cabinet Reviews

[A] brilliant mosaic novel...These stories straddle the lines between science fiction, fantasy, fairy tale, and acute reality.
Un-su Kim is a tremendous writer
Showcases his sly, surreal, dark humor about all the ways humans are, well, not particularly human.
This charming and fantastical book is sure to introduce Kim to a whole new legion of weird fiction fans, ideal for readers of Han Kang's The Vegetarian and the works of Haruki Murakami.
Kim deftly juggles both macro-level and micro-level ideas about social roles, purpose, and personal narrative.
What begins as a rather whimsical set of stories turns into a much darker novel, raising issues of difference and acceptance, what people must do to survive, and what is truly monstrous.
Surprising and enchanting
comic, heartbreaking and terrifying.

About Un-su Kim

Un-Su Kim was born in 1972 in Busan and is the author of several highly praised novels. He has won the Munhakdongne Novel Prize, Korea's most prestigious literary prize, and was nominated for the 2016 Grand Prix de la Litterature Policiere. He lives in Jinhae-gu, South Korea.

Additional information

GOR011593746
9780857669179
0857669176
The Cabinet by Un-su Kim
Used - Like New
Paperback
Watkins Media Limited
20211012
400
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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