PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
SANG YOUNG PARK was born in 1988 and studied French literature at Sungkyunkwan University. He worked as a magazine editor, copywriter, and consultant before debuting as a novelist. The title story of his bestselling short story collection, The Tears of an Unknown Artist, or Zaytun Pasta, was one of Words Without Borders's most read pieces ever. He lives in Seoul. ANTON HUR was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He is the winner of a PEN Translates grant and a PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant, among many others, and his translations include Kyung-Sook Shin's The Court Dancer and Kang Kyeong-ae's The Underground Village.
Praise for Love in the Big City 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. This novel is bawdy, hilarious, heartbreaking, fearless. --Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel How could a story be as intense as this, as fresh as this? Page after page, we discover contradictory emotions that are both surprising and beautiful. I was so eager to read on that my fingers turned each new page before I'd finished the last. I hope he writes another novel that inspires such hard and fast intimacy. --Kyung-Sook Shin, author of Please Look After Mom A leading author of Korean queer literature and the hottest name of the moment. --The Hankyoreh I cried when I got to the end. As cliched as it sounds, reading this book made me feel that 'this summer night, this big city, because of you' I could believe in love again. --Brunch.co.kr Love in the Big City is a compelling novel that deserves to be widely read. It expands our expectations and assumptions about what contemporary Korean literature is and can be. --Yoo Jun, Professor of Korean Literature at Yonsei University
