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The Consultant
The darkly funny, satirical Korean thriller
Buch von Seong-sun Im
Sprache: Englisch

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'It's a clever book ... [Im Seong-sun] offers readers his razor-sharp observations on consumerism, capitalism and what it means to feel anonymous' M.W. Craven
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Sometimes work can be murder...


The Consultant is very good at his job. He creates simple, elegant, effective solutions for. restructuring. Nothing obvious or messy. Certainly nothing anyone would ever suspect as murder.

The 'natural deaths' he plans have always gone well: a medicine replaced here, a mechanism jammed there. His performance reviews are excellent. And it's not as though he knows these people.

Until his next 'customer' turns out to be someone he not only knows but cares about, and for the first time, he begins to question the role he plays in the vast, anonymous Company. And as he slowly begins to understand the real scope of their work, he realises just how easy it would be for the Company to arrange one more perfect murder...

But how far will he go to escape The Company? And how far will they go to stop him?

The electrifying first novel from award-winning Korean thriller-writer Im Seong-Sun - now in English for the first time - combines the tension of the best crime fiction with searing social criticism to present a searing take-down of global corporate life.

'It's a clever book ... [Im Seong-sun] offers readers his razor-sharp observations on consumerism, capitalism and what it means to feel anonymous' M.W. Craven
_______________
Sometimes work can be murder...


The Consultant is very good at his job. He creates simple, elegant, effective solutions for. restructuring. Nothing obvious or messy. Certainly nothing anyone would ever suspect as murder.

The 'natural deaths' he plans have always gone well: a medicine replaced here, a mechanism jammed there. His performance reviews are excellent. And it's not as though he knows these people.

Until his next 'customer' turns out to be someone he not only knows but cares about, and for the first time, he begins to question the role he plays in the vast, anonymous Company. And as he slowly begins to understand the real scope of their work, he realises just how easy it would be for the Company to arrange one more perfect murder...

But how far will he go to escape The Company? And how far will they go to stop him?

The electrifying first novel from award-winning Korean thriller-writer Im Seong-Sun - now in English for the first time - combines the tension of the best crime fiction with searing social criticism to present a searing take-down of global corporate life.

Über den Autor
Im Seong-sun is a writer, the author of ten books. His first novel, The Consultant, was awarded the 2010 Segye Ilbo Literary Award, and his short story 'The Sheeple Wandering a Gallery and Their Predators' won Korea's Young Artist Award. Seong-sun's sci-fi novel Ouroboros earned him the Korean SF Award.
Zusammenfassung
A star of Korean crime, this leads the pack among The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-Eun (winner of the CWA Dagger in translation 2020), The Plotters by Kim Un-Su ('the next Scandi noir'- Guardian), and Bruised Fruit by Gu Byeong-mo (coming Feb 2022)
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Krimis & Thriller
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781526654144
ISBN-10: 1526654148
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Im, Seong-sun
Übersetzung: Jae, An Seon
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße: 145 x 223 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Seong-sun Im
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.11.2023
Gewicht: 0,322 kg
Artikel-ID: 125752020
Über den Autor
Im Seong-sun is a writer, the author of ten books. His first novel, The Consultant, was awarded the 2010 Segye Ilbo Literary Award, and his short story 'The Sheeple Wandering a Gallery and Their Predators' won Korea's Young Artist Award. Seong-sun's sci-fi novel Ouroboros earned him the Korean SF Award.
Zusammenfassung
A star of Korean crime, this leads the pack among The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-Eun (winner of the CWA Dagger in translation 2020), The Plotters by Kim Un-Su ('the next Scandi noir'- Guardian), and Bruised Fruit by Gu Byeong-mo (coming Feb 2022)
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Krimis & Thriller
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781526654144
ISBN-10: 1526654148
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Im, Seong-sun
Übersetzung: Jae, An Seon
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße: 145 x 223 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Seong-sun Im
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.11.2023
Gewicht: 0,322 kg
Artikel-ID: 125752020
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