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Choi Jin-young

Biography

Choi Jin-young

Choi Jin-young is one of South Korea’s best-known authors. Her career started in 2006 when she won the Silcheon Literature Debut Author Award. She has since won many more, including the Shin Dong-yup Literary Prize, Manhae Literary Prize and, most recently, the Yi Sang Literary Award.

Choi Jin-young

Books by Choi Jin-young

written by Choi Jin-young, translated by Soje - Fiction, Horror, Psychological Suspense, Psychological Thriller, Suspense, Thriller

On an ordinary afternoon, a woman sees her partner murdered in the street. Time freezes. She lifts his body from the pavement, cradles him home, disinfects each inch of skin --- and sits down to begin. As he witnesses his own funeral from beyond, their two voices --- living and dead --- lament a lifetime of bone-grinding labor in a society that devours everyone whole. But the woman is no longer willing to bow before law, God or money. In an act of love and rebellion, she transforms his body into her own, entombing him within her flesh so that he may live again.