This novel made me want to dance all night and fall in love. “ Love in the Big City is a light-streaked and dazzling novel about all the messy riots of young life. This novel is bawdy, hilarious, heartbreaking, fearless.” -Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel “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. Yet in time even Jaehee settles down, leaving Young alone to care for his ailing mother and 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. He and Jaehee, his female best friend and roommate, frequent nearby bars where they suppress their anxieties about their love lives, families, and money with rounds of soju and freezer-chilled Marlboro Reds. Young is a cynical yet fun-loving Korean student who pinballs from home to class to the beds of recent Tinder matches. 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.
Longlisted for the 2023 Dublin Literary PrizeĪ fresh and unique debut novel by the bestselling young star of Korean queer fiction. Yet 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 anot.Longlisted for the 2022 Booker International Prize He and Jaehee, his female best friend and roommate, frequent nearby bars where they push away their anxieties about their love lives, families, and money with rounds of soju and ice-cold Marlboro Reds that they keep in their freezer.
It is now poised to capture a worldwide readership. A runaway bestseller, the novel hit the top five lists of all the major bookstores, went into twenty-six printings, and was praised for its unique literary voice and perspective. Love in the Big City is the English-language debut of Sang Young Park, one of Korea’s most exciting young writers. A funny, transporting, surprising, and poignant novel that was one of the highest-selling debuts of recent years in Korea, Love in the Big City tells the story of a young gay man searching for happiness in the lonely city of Seoul
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