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Another Person
By (Author) Kang Hwagil
Translated by Clare Richards
Pushkin Press
Pushkin Press
1st October 2024
4th July 2024
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Narrative theme: Love and relationships
Narrative theme: Interior life
Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss
895.735
Paperback
304
Width 129mm, Height 198mm
Who is JinaThe stupid woman who ruined a young man's careerThe weird loner whose university boyfriend thinks that she has a victim complexThe naive country girl who ignored a friend's cry for helpTo understand who she really is, Jina must return to Anjin University, and to the toxic culture that destroyed the lives of many female students - including Ha Yuri, who died in mysterious circumstances not long before she left. Somewhere within Jina's memories lies the truth about what happened to them both all those years ago...
'A confronting and timely book about consent, toxic masculinity, sexual assault and how women are treated in South Korea by one of the country's most prominent feminist writers... a powerful look at sexism and assault in university campuses and beyond' - Independent
'A mesmerising debut. Dark, twisted and bracingly empathetic about the gap between who we are and how we appear to others' - Diana Reid, author of Love and Virtue
'A novel so immaculately-crafted, shocking, and moving, it's hard to believe it's the author's first' - Sang Young Park, author of the International Booker-longlisted Love in the Big City
'Dark Academia the way I like it: one of those novels where you're never sure who you should be rooting for, or if you should be rooting for anyone at all. Smart, and full of suspense, it will keep you guessing until the end.' - Hanna Bervoets, author of We Had to Remove This Post
'Sharp societal commentary and amazing, complex female characters. An unusual, unpredictable thriller' - Simone Campos, author of Nothing Can Hurt You Now
Kang Hwagil is one of South Korea's new group of 'young feminists'. Her writing has received numerous accolades, most recently the 2020 Munhakdongne Young Writers' Award for her short story 'Eumbok'. She has published two short story collections, A Decent Person (2016) and White Horse (2020), as well as three novels: Another Person (2017), which won the Hankyoreh Literary Award the same year; The Haunting of Daebul Hotel (2021); and Pull-up (2023).