Name: Saha: A Novel
Price: 345.00 ZAR
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Author: Cho Nam-joo
ISBN: 9781324094111

Type

Physical Book

Author

Cho Nam-joo

Publisher

Liveright

Language

English

Pages

240

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781324094111

Saha: A Novel

Cho Nam-joo (Author) · Liveright · Paperback

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Delivery: 17 Jul - 12 Aug

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Synopsis "Saha: A Novel "

In a country called Town, a doctor named Su is found dead in an abandoned car. There is only one place the police intend to look for her suspected killer: the Saha Estates. Controlled by a secretive organization of ministers, Town is the safest, richest nation in the world. But it is a society clearly divided into the haves and have-nots, and those who have the very least--who aren't even considered citizens--live on the Saha Estates. Residents of Saha must squat in moldy units without plumbing or electricity and can only find work doing harsh labor. For many, the apartment complex is a bleak haven for escaping even bleaker pasts--as it was for Jin-kyung and her brother, Do-Kyung, who showed up one day sopping wet and shivering. No one is shocked when a lowlife like Do-Kyung becomes the main suspect in Su's--a citizen's--murder. But then Do-Kyung disappears. Isolated in a barren Saha unit, Jin-Kyung makes a choice: she will finally confront a system hellbent on erasing her brother's existence. To find him, she must rely on her tightlipped neighbors, from the mysterious janitor known as "Old Man," to Granny Konnim, the community gardener and reluctant midwife, to Woomi, an unwitting test subject at the local clinic. On her quest for the truth, Jin-kyung will uncover a reality far darker than she could have imagined. Written in Cho Nam-Joo's signature sharp prose, brilliantly translated by Jamie Chang, Saha is a chilling portrait of what happens when we finally unmask our oppressors.

Cho Nam-joo

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Cho Nam-joo (Seoul, 1978) is a Korean writer. Before becoming a mass phenomenon in her country, she graduated in Sociology and worked for ten years as a television screenwriter. Her first two novels, When You Listen Carefully (2011) and For Comaneci (2016), achieved critical acclaim and received multiple awards. Her first novel translated into Spanish and published by Alfaguara, Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 (2019) became a phenomenon among the audience in her country and was a finalist for the National Book Award and made into a movie in 2019.

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