Imagine Cormac McCarthy writing about the boring lives of clerks and you’ll anticipate something of the dystopic flavour of this gripping but socially bleak short story from Hwang. In a Korean world in which education has historically meant everything, the narrator realizes both that this is not true (through her partner in an essentially loveless affair) and that the recognition of this fact does not surprise her at all. The narrator is drawn into a larger story when she refuses to sell cigarettes to Jinju, a young woman in the company of two men who subsequently goes missing.
- ISBN13 9781911343622
- Publish Date 17 June 2019
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher UEA Publishing Project
- Imprint Strangers Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 36
- Language English