The Consultant: The darkly funny, satirical Korean thriller
Autor Seong-sun Im Traducere de An Seon Jaeen Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 noi 2023
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781526654144
ISBN-10: 1526654148
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 135 x 216 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Raven Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1526654148
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 135 x 216 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Raven Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
A star of Korean crime, this leads the pack among The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-Eun (winner of the CWA Dagger in translation 2020), The Plotters by Kim Un-Su ('the next Scandi noir'- Guardian), and Bruised Fruit by Gu Byeong-mo (coming Feb 2022)
Notă biografică
Im Seong-sun's writing career took off with his Segye Literary Award winning novel, The Consultant, in 2010. Ever since, he's written an array of critically acclaimed, diverse fiction and nonfiction, such as a short story collection The Sheeple Wandering a Gallery and their Predators, novels Moon Geunyoung Is in Danger, Rather Kind People Live Here, The Arctic Ocean, The Paragon of Self Improvement, and Ouroboros, and recently, an essay collection Third Wheel of No Use. In 2019, he received the Young Writer's Award and the Korean Sci-fi Award.An Seon Jae (aka Brother Anthony of Taizé) was born in England in 1942. He studied at the Queen's College in Oxford. He joined the Community of Taizé in 1969. He has been living in Korea since 1980, and taught English literature at Sogang University, where he is now an emeritus professor, until he retired in 2007. He is also a chair-professor at Dankook University. He has translated works by many major contemporary Korean writers, mostly poetry, publishing well over 50 volumes. He served as President of the Royal Asiatic Society (Korea) for ten years and is now its President Emeritus. He was awarded an Honorary MBE in 2015. His home page URL is http://anthony.sogang.ac.kr/
Recenzii
The Consultant is not only a hugely entertaining book, it's a clever book. As the morally ambiguous consultant goes about his business of arranging natural deaths to streamline corporate restructuring, he offers readers his razor-sharp observations on consumerism, capitalism and what it means to feel anonymous. It's also damn funny
An epic satire of society and power, The Consultant charms and shocks, luring you in to its sizzling plot with no mercy, until you're petrified of how it can possibly end. A blistering indictment of our modern world, this thriller will make you question everything. Brilliant
An intriguing premise, cleverly executed, makes for a brilliant read. For The Consultant, a killer who never meets his victims, it all starts to go wrong when he's told to kill someone he knows. Darkly funny, with a fascinating protagonist, it's excellent!
Wow . Such a fresh take. Perfect murders in the imperfect world of business and power. Quietly and stylishly told. There's an honesty in the simplicity and brutality that is enlightening and thought-provoking. I'll be thinking about it for a while
A spicy and pacey Korean crime novel in translation. the reader is brought along on a thrilling journey that probes the cracks in capitalism by exploring what people would really do for money
Consultant unfurls from the perspective of a first-person narrator who writes scenarios of perfect crimes. It examines ... the violence of modern anonymity and capitalism.
The details and specifics of murder consulting are intriguing, and the plot propelled by its cerebral narrative and reasoning is refreshing ... it's a page turner, reminiscent of the American show, CSI.
These facts about Sung-soon Lim might astound you ... Every book of his boasts a drastically different sensibility, prose, and subject matter. His world building is unparalleled, his prose precise, and you can see the echo of extensive research that must have gone into the storytelling.
This tale of an accidental accomplice to serial murder spellbindingly combines the eerily affectless, morally ambiguous tone of a Patricia Highsmith novel with John Dickson Carr's fecundity in devising "impossible" crimes
[The Consultant] is toweringly the most interesting of the autumn bunch ... beautifully crafted, witty, slick novel has a profound meta-physical basis
An epic satire of society and power, The Consultant charms and shocks, luring you in to its sizzling plot with no mercy, until you're petrified of how it can possibly end. A blistering indictment of our modern world, this thriller will make you question everything. Brilliant
An intriguing premise, cleverly executed, makes for a brilliant read. For The Consultant, a killer who never meets his victims, it all starts to go wrong when he's told to kill someone he knows. Darkly funny, with a fascinating protagonist, it's excellent!
Wow . Such a fresh take. Perfect murders in the imperfect world of business and power. Quietly and stylishly told. There's an honesty in the simplicity and brutality that is enlightening and thought-provoking. I'll be thinking about it for a while
A spicy and pacey Korean crime novel in translation. the reader is brought along on a thrilling journey that probes the cracks in capitalism by exploring what people would really do for money
Consultant unfurls from the perspective of a first-person narrator who writes scenarios of perfect crimes. It examines ... the violence of modern anonymity and capitalism.
The details and specifics of murder consulting are intriguing, and the plot propelled by its cerebral narrative and reasoning is refreshing ... it's a page turner, reminiscent of the American show, CSI.
These facts about Sung-soon Lim might astound you ... Every book of his boasts a drastically different sensibility, prose, and subject matter. His world building is unparalleled, his prose precise, and you can see the echo of extensive research that must have gone into the storytelling.
This tale of an accidental accomplice to serial murder spellbindingly combines the eerily affectless, morally ambiguous tone of a Patricia Highsmith novel with John Dickson Carr's fecundity in devising "impossible" crimes
[The Consultant] is toweringly the most interesting of the autumn bunch ... beautifully crafted, witty, slick novel has a profound meta-physical basis