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Saha -- Cho Nam-Joo, Hardcover
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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.
Author: Cho Nam-Joo
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published: 11/01/2022
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781324090885
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/01/2022 pg. 3
Publishers Weekly 09/19/2022
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2022
Booklist 10/01/2022 pg. 24
Foreword 10/27/2022
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.
Author: Cho Nam-Joo
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published: 11/01/2022
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781324090885
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/01/2022 pg. 3
Publishers Weekly 09/19/2022
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2022
Booklist 10/01/2022 pg. 24
Foreword 10/27/2022
Product Tags:
Cho Nam-Joo, Dystopian, Fiction, Government, Hardcover, Korea, Literary, Literature - Classics / Criticism, Liveright Publishing Corporation, Resistance to, World Literature
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