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The Cabinet

by Un-su Kim
Jun Hwang
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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 ]

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    October 12, 2021

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      • ISBN: 9780857669711
      • File size: 302410 KB
      • Duration: 10:30:01

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Booklist

      September 1, 2021
      Kong Deok-geun is an "average administrative worker," a position for which he surpassed 137 applicants for "a job that has no work." His boredom, so severe that he's named it "I-would-rather-eat-dog-treats-than-suffer-this-boredom," sends him to the fourth floor, where he discovers Cabinet 13, then spends an entire week methodically cycling through 10,000 combinations to open the four-digit lock. The 375 files within are the lifework of acerbic, dying Professor Kwon, who eventually, inexplicably names Kong as his successor. Kwon's collected research is on all manner of "symptomers," people who "exist between the humans of today and the humans of the future." Some survive by consuming inedibles--gas, glass, steel, newspapers. Some are "torporers" and lose time. Some deal with doppelg�ngers or separated-twin souls. Some are "chimera," with a ginkgo tree embedded in a finger, a lizard for a tongue. The latter group will provoke less-than-friendly outside interest that will threaten Kong's future forever. Deftly translated by award-winning Halbert, Kim's latest import (after the irresistible The Plotters, 2019) again showcases his sly, surreal, dark humor about all the ways humans are, well, not particularly human.

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