![]() ![]() He and Jaehee, his female best friend and roommate, frequent nearby bars where they suppress their anxieties about their love lives, families, and money with rounds of soju and freezer-chilled Marlboro Reds. Young is a cynical yet fun-loving Korean student who pinballs from home to class to the beds of recent Tinder matches. ![]() Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2022Ī fresh and unique debut novel by the bestselling young star of Korean queer fiction, Love in the Big City is an energetic, joyful, and moving novel that depicts both the glittering nighttime world of Seoul and the bleary-eyed morning-after. Split into four sections and written with empathy and scathing wit, Sang Young Park’s accomplished queer coming-of-age story details the narrator’s hedonistic yet troubled existence in contemporary Seoul. ![]()
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