Another Person

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A confronting and timely book about consent, toxic masculinity, sexual assault and how women are treated in South Korea, by one of the country's most prominent feminist writers * Independent * From an exciting new voice in Korean fiction comes a mesmeric, unpredictable, dagger-like thriller that combines dark academia with sharpest social commentary to transfixing effect * Waterstones * A mesmerising debut. Dark, twisted and bracingly empathetic about the gap between who we are and how we appear to others -- Diana Reid, author of Love and Virtue A novel so immaculately-crafted, shocking, and moving, it's hard to believe it's the author's first; this is what Kang Hwagil's ANOTHER PERSON is to me -- Sang Young Park, author of the International Booker-longlisted Love in the Big City Dark Academia the way I like it: Another Person is one of those novels where you're never sure who you should be rooting for, or if you should be rooting for anyone at all. Smart, and full of suspense, it will keep you guessing until the end. -- Hanna Bervoets, author of We Had to Remove This Post Sharp societal commentary and amazing, complex female characters. An unusual, unpredictable thriller -- Simone Campos, author of Nothing Can Hurt You Now This is not a remote-controlled weapon aiming at us from a distance. This is a novel standing right before us like a stone-age axe, hacking at our blunted hearts. A novel not like a drone, but like dynamite; more like a dagger than an arrow. In an ever-more misogynistic society, day after day feminism plots its self-transformation-Another Person is its latest weapon. I love Kang Hwagil's direct and primal writing style. I love her perseverance and courage, not to gracefully skirt around a topic, but instead to shout out, 'This is not okay -- Cheong Yeoul, writer This novel exposes and interrogates. Another Person's protagonists Yuri, Jina and Sujin-as well as the countless women within the 'brackets' of the Korean context-are screaming out... This is a novel that will spark debate. -- Young-Sook Kang, author of Rina