The Cabinet
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
12.10.2021
Verlag
Watkins Media LtdSeitenzahl
304
Maße (L/B/H)
21,2/13,2/2,6 cm
Gewicht
328 g
Übersetzt von
Sean Lin Halbert
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-85766-917-9
Winner of the Munhakdongne Novel Award, South Korea's most prestigious literary prize.
Cabinet 13 looks exactly like any normal filing cabinet…Except this cabinet is filled with files on the ‘symptomers’, humans whose strange abilities and bizarre experiences might just mark the emergence of a new species.
But to Mr Kong, the harried office worker whose job it is to look after the cabinet, the symptomers are a headache; especially the one who won’t stop calling every day, asking to be turned into a cat.
A richly funny and fantastical novel about the strangeness at the heart of even the most everyday lives, from one of South Korea's most acclaimed novelists.
Translated by Sean Lin Halbert
File Under: Fiction [ 12,000 Cans of Beer | Memory Mosaicers | Will Execution Inc. | Monkey of All Bombs ]
Cabinet 13 looks exactly like any normal filing cabinet…Except this cabinet is filled with files on the ‘symptomers’, humans whose strange abilities and bizarre experiences might just mark the emergence of a new species.
But to Mr Kong, the harried office worker whose job it is to look after the cabinet, the symptomers are a headache; especially the one who won’t stop calling every day, asking to be turned into a cat.
A richly funny and fantastical novel about the strangeness at the heart of even the most everyday lives, from one of South Korea's most acclaimed novelists.
Translated by Sean Lin Halbert
File Under: Fiction [ 12,000 Cans of Beer | Memory Mosaicers | Will Execution Inc. | Monkey of All Bombs ]
Kundinnen und Kunden meinen
A beautiful story with an abrupt ending
Bewertung am 15.01.2023
Bewertungsnummer: 1860514
Bewertet: Buch (Taschenbuch)
The Cabinet is a mosaic novel set around Mr Kong and filing cabinet number 13. The cabinet houses documents of the strangest people that one can imagine and their experiences. Mr Kong might speak with a time skipper one second, helping her cope with the time she has lost, and the next second, be asked to advise a man with a Ginko growing out of his finger. Altogether, cabinet 13 is a handful. And it might be more dangerous for Mr Kong than he could ever have imagined.
This book is a fascinating mixture of fantasy and science fiction and the real world. There is a lot of beauty in the different cases documented in the cabinet. The cases can make a reader ponder the importance of connection, being seen, and the relevance of normalcy.
Still, the book has an abrupt ending that starkly contrasts the rest of the story.
While I would read it again, I would try to find other readers to discuss the story in more depth as this would likely be very enriching.
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