<b>'Dark Academia the way I like it. . . Smart, and full of suspense, it will keep you guessing until the end' Hanna Bervoets, author <i>We Had to Remove This Post</i></b>
<b>'Sharp societal commentary and amazing, complex female characters' Simon Campos, author of <i>Nothing Can Hurt You Now</i></b>
<b>'A confronting and timely book about consent' <i>Independent</i></b>
Who is Jina?
The stupid woman who ruined a young man's career?
The weird loner whose university boyfriend thinks that she has a victim complex?
The naive country girl who ignored a friend's cry for help?
To understand who she really is, Jina must return to Anjin University, and to the toxic culture that destroyed the lives of many female students - including Ha Yuri, who died in mysterious circumstances not long before she left. Somewhere within Jina's memories lies the truth about what happened to them both all those years ago...
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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... a powerful look at sexism and assault in university campuses and beyond * Independent * 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 -- Sang Young Park, author of the International Booker-longlisted Love in the Big City Dark Academia the way I like it: 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 A suspenseful campus novel about the legacy of sexual violence that reads with the pace of a thriller * Big Issue *
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Height: 196 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
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978-1-78227-937-2 (9781782279372)
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Kang Hwagil is one of South Korea's new group of 'young feminists'. Her writing has received numerous accolades, most recently the 2020 Munhakdongne Young Writers' Award for her short story 'Eumbok'. She has published two short story collections, A Decent Person (2016) and White Horse (2020), as well as three novels: Another Person (2017), which won the Hankyoreh Literary Award the same year; The Haunting of Daebul Hotel (2021); and Pull-up (2023).