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Sang Young Park

Biography

Sang Young Park

Sang Young Park was born in 1988 and studied French at Sungkyunkwan University. He worked as a magazine editor, copywriter and consultant for seven years before debuting as a novelist. The title story of his bestselling short story collection, "The Tears of an Unknown Artist," or "Zaytun Pasta," was one of WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS's most read pieces ever. He lives in Seoul. 

Sang Young Park

Books by Sang Young Park

written by Sang Young Park, translated by Anton Hur - Fiction

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 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. Yet 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.