
Love in the Big City
by Sang Young Park
Title:
Love in the Big City
Author:
Sang Young Park
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
217 pages
Publisher:
Tilted Axis Press
ISBN-13:
9781911284659
EAN:
9781911284659
Publication Date:
28/10/2021
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
334
Dimensions (mm):
130 x 197 x 26
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
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, frequent nearby bars where they push away their anxieties about their love lives, families, and money with rounds of soju and Marlboro Reds. Over time, even Jaehee leaves Young to settle down, leaving him alone to care for his ailing mother and to 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. Love in the Big Cityis an exploration of millennial loneliness as well as the joys of queer life, that should appeal to readers of Sayaka Murata, Han Kang, and Cho Nam-Joo.











