En avbruten rakhyvel utlöser en kedja av olyckor för en tjänsteman på väg till sitt jobb i centrala Seoul. I en utsiktslös källarvåning är datorskärmen en ung mans enda fönster mot omvärlden. En gift kvinna blir mer och mer övertygad om att hennes känslokalle man är en vampyr. Och en [...]
A foreign film importer, Gi-yeong is a family man with a wife and daughter. An aficionado of Heineken, soccer, and sushi, he is also a North Korean spy who has been living among his enemies for twenty-one years.
Suddenly he receives a mysterious email, a directive seemingly from the home office.[...]
In the fast-paced, high-urban landscape of Seoul, C and K are brothers who have fallen in love with the same woman--Se-yeon--who tears at both of them as they all try desperately to find real connection in an atomized world. A spectral, nameless narrator haunts the edges of their lives as he tells o[...]
"'Can a nation disappear forever' . . . In] a tale of collective loss, political revolution and the individual quest for self-determination . . . Kim brings us the souls caught up on the ground of this larger drama." -- "Minneapolis Star Tribune"
In 1904, facing war and the loss of their natio[...]