Another Person by Kang Hwagil

Another Person by Kang Hwagil

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Another Person by Kang Hwagil

'A mesmerising debut. Dark, twisted and bracingly empathetic' Diana Reid, author of Love and Virtue

Winner of the 2017 Hankyoreh Literary Award

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Who is Jina?

The stupid woman who ruined a young man's promising career?

The weird loner whose university boyfriend thinks she has a victim complex?

The naïve country girl who ignored a friend's cry for help?

The survivor?

To answer these questions, Jina will have to return to Anjin University and the toxic culture that destroyed the lives of many female students - including one, Ha Yuri, who died tragically and mysteriously not long before she left.

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PRAISE FOR ANOTHER PERSON

'Immaculately crafted, shocking and moving' Sang Young Park, author of the International Booker-longlisted Love in the Big City

'Dark Academia the way I like it... smart and full of suspense' Hanna Bervoets, author of We Had to Remove This Post

'Sharp social commentary and amazing, complex female characters. An unusual, unpredictable thriller' Simone Campos, author of Nothing Can Hurt You Now

'Dark Academia the way I like it: Another Person is one of those novels where you're never sure who you should be rooting for, or if you should be rooting for anyone at allSmart, and full of suspense, it will keep you guessing until the end.' - Hanna Bervoets, author of We Had to Remove This Post

'Sharp societal commentary and amazing, complex female characters. An unusual, unpredictable thriller' - Simone Campos, author of Nothing Can Hurt You Now

'This is not a remote-controlled weapon aiming at us from a distance. This is a novel standing right before us like a stone-age axe, hacking at our blunted hearts. A novel not like a drone, but like dynamite; more like a dagger than an arrow. In an ever-more misogynistic society, day after day feminism plots its self-transformation-Another Person is its latest weapon. I love Kang Hwagil's direct and primal writing style. I love her perseverance and courage, not to gracefully skirt around a topic, but instead to shout out, 'This is not okay' - Cheong Yeoul, writer

'This novel exposes and interrogates. Another Person's protagonists Yuri, Jina and Sujin-as well as the countless women within the 'brackets' of the Korean context-are screaming out... This is a novel that will spark debate.' - Young-Sook Kang, author of Rina

'A novel so immaculately-crafted, shocking, and moving, it's hard to believe it's the author's first; this is what Kang Hwagil's ANOTHER PERSON is to me' - Sang Young Park, author of the International Booker-longlisted Love in the Big City

'A confronting and timely book about consent, toxic masculinity, sexual assault and how women are treated in South Korea, by one of the country's most prominent feminist writers' -Independent


Kang Hwagil is one of South Korea's new group of 'young feminists'. Her writing has received numerous accolades, most recently the 2020 Munhakdongne Young Writers' Award for short story Eumbok. She has published two short story collections, A Decent Person (2016) and White Horse (2020), as well as two novels, Another Person (2017), which won the Hankyoreh Literary Award the same year, and The Haunting of Daebul Hotel (2021).
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ISBN 13 9781782279358
ISBN 10 1782279350
Title Another Person
Author Kang Hwagil
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Pushkin Press
Year published 2023-06-01
Number of pages 304
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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