City Of Ash And Red A Novel Hardcover Hyeyoung Pyun Sora Kimrussell Translation by Hye-young Pyun, Sora Kim-russell (translation) 9781628727814, 1628727810 instant download after payment.

For fans of J. G. Ballard & early Ian McEwan, a tense psychological thriller & Kafkaesque parable by the author of The Hole―called “an airtight masterpiece” by the Korean Economic Daily.         Distinguished for his talents as a rat killer, the nameless protagonist of Hye-young Pyun's City of Ash & Red is sent by the extermination company he works for on an extended assignment in C, a country descending into chaos & paranoia, swept by a contagious disease, & flooded with trash. No sooner does he disembark than he is whisked away by quarantine officials & detained overnight. Isolated & forgotten, he realizes that he is stranded with no means of contacting the outside world. 

Still worse, when he finally manages to reach an old friend, he is told that his ex-wife's body was found in his apartment & he is the prime suspect. Barely managing to escape arrest, he must struggle to survive in the streets of this foreign city gripped with fear of contamination & reestablish contact with his company & friends in order to clear his reputation.

But as the man's former life slips further & further from his grasp, & he looks back on his time with his wife, it becomes clear that he may not quite be who he seems. City of Ash & Red is an apocalyptic account of the destructive impact of fear & paranoia on people's lives as well as a haunting novel about a man’s loss of himself & his humanity.
 

Hye-young Pyun (b. 1972) earned her undergraduate degree in creative writing & graduate degree in Korean literature from Hanyang University.

Sora Kim-Russell is a literary translator based in Seoul. Her recent publications: Kim Un-su’s The Plotters & Hwang Sok-yong’s At Dusk. She has taught literary translation at the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference, Literatur