Old Woman With the Knife (eBook)

GU BYEONG-MO (Autor)

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2022
288 Seiten
Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-1-83885-644-1 (ISBN)

Infos

She never presumed she herself would live out her natural life, so she wouldn't mind leaving this world through an untimely death.Hornclaw is a sixty-five-year-old female contract killer who is considering retirement. But while on an assassination job for the 'disease control' company she works for, Hornclaw makes an uncharacteristic error, causing a sequence of events that brings her past well and truly into the present.Threatened with sabotage by a young male upstart and battling new desires and urges when she least expects them, Hornclaw steels her resolve, demonstrating that no matter their age, the female of the species is always more deadly than the male.

Autor

Gu Byeong-mo was born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1976. She made her literary debut in 2009 when her novel Wizard Bakery won the second Changbi Prize for Young Adult Fiction. Her 2015 short-story collection Geugeosi namaneun anigireul received the Today’s Writer Award and Hwang Sun-won New Writers’ Award. This is her third novel, and the first to be translated into the English language. Chi-Young Kim is an award-winning literary translator and editor based in Los Angeles. A recipient of the Man Asian Literary Prize (2011), she has translated works by You-jeong Jeong, Sun-mi Hwang, Young-ha Kim, Kyung Ran Jo, J.M. Lee and Kyung-sook Shin, among others.

Rezensionen

Gu's unfaltering focus and masterful writing conjure up a persuasive, transformative narrative of a woman who had to live like an emotionless machine and eventually comes to acknowledge the very human and universal emotion deep within herself . . . Gu's mastery of storytelling shines

Gu says that the distance between imagination and daydreaming is but a millimetre. She's the writer who beats down the boundary between reality and imagination . . . Her writing is so evocative and haunting, even after I finished the book . . . I had to revisit The Old Woman With the Knife four times in three months

This novel breaks out of the box of what constitutes "a mystery thriller with a killer as the heroine" and into a much broader literary territory. The Old Woman With the Knife is a cruel yet beautiful study on what is the fate of being, on bruising and disintegrating life, and on all the inevitable truths of human life

There has never been a Korean novel with such a groundbreaking heroine

The sixty-something female killer Hornclaw, who's been making a living as a professional killer, might come off as an ordinary woman at first sight, but is an intimidating person with quite the muscle and ammunition. I couldn't hope for a better heroine - a truly powerful character with an ageing human body

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.3.2022
• Übersetzer: Chi-Young Kim
• Verlagsort: Edinburgh
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Krimi / Thriller
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: Berlinale • Killing Eve • Lee Hye-young • memento mori • Min Kyu-dong • Old Boy • parasite • SooFilm • The Handmaiden
• ISBN-10: 1-83885-644-7 / 1838856447
• ISBN-13: 978-1-83885-644-1 / 9781838856441