It is now poised to capture a worldwide readership. A runaway bestseller, the novel hit the top five lists of all the major bookstores, went into twenty-six printings, and was praised for its unique literary voice and perspective. 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 anot. Love in the Big City is the English-language debut of Sang Young Park, one of Koreas most exciting young writers. 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. Young is a cynical yet fun-loving Korean student who pinballs from home to class to the beds of recent Tinder matches.

Love in the Big City is the English-language debut of Sang Young Park, one of Korea’s most exciting young writers. Many thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for sharing this book with me. As the narrator attends the wedding of his university best friend and former partner-in-crime Jaehee, he is casually informed of a rumour that he has died and notices how. Told in a series of vignettes, readers follow the protagonist through experiences in love and other relationships. From its opening sentences, Sang Young Park’s bestselling novel Love in the Big City had me engrossed. A funny, transporting, surprising, and poignant novel that was one of the highest-selling debuts of recent years in Korea, Love in the Big City tells the story of a young gay man searching for happiness in the lonely city of Seoul Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park is a tender look at queer love in South Korea.

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