He and Jaehee, his female best friend and roommate, frequent nearby bars where they push away their anxieties about their love lives, families, and money with rounds of soju and ice-cold Marlboro Reds that they keep in their freezer. Young is a cynical yet fun-loving Korean student who pinballs from home to class to the beds of recent Tinder matches. It is now poised to capture a worldwide readership. A runaway bestseller, the novel hit the top five lists of all the major bookstores, went into twenty-six printings, and was praised for its unique literary voice and perspective. Love in the Big City is the English-language debut of Sang Young Park, one of Korea’s most exciting young writers.
A funny, transporting, surprising, and poignant novel that was one of the highest-selling debuts of recent years in Korea, Love in the Big City tells the story of a young gay man searching for happiness in the lonely city of Seoul
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