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. Young is a cynical yet fun-loving Korean student who pinballs from home to class to the beds of recent Tinder matches. He and Jaehee, his female best friend, frequent nearby bars where they push away their anxieties about their love lives, families, and money with rounds of soju and Marlboro Reds. 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 another who might end up being the great love of his life.

Love in the Big City is an exploration of millennial loneliness as well as the joys of queer life, that should appeal to readers of Sayaka Murata, Han Kang, and Cho Nam-Joo.

A fresh and unique debut novel by the bestselling young star of Korean queer
fiction

About the Author
Park Sang Young is a writer of short stories, screenplays, and newspaper columns, an office worker by day whose influences range from Agatha Christie to Roxane Gay. Born in 1988, he won the New Writers Award in 2016 for his first story, and his debut collection, published in 2018, went into a third print run within a month of publication. Anton Hur was born in Stockholm. He has published book translations of works by Kyung-Sook Shin, Hwang Sok-yong, Bora Chung, and others. He resides in Seoul.

Awards
Commended for Dublin Literary Award 2023 and International Booker Prize 2022.



Book Information
ISBN 9781911284659
Author Sang Young Park
Format Paperback
Imprint Tilted Axis Press
Publisher Tilted Axis Press