Plotters

Literature & Fiction

Kim, Un-Su

Contemporary

DOUBLEDAY

A dark, funny, deliciously different literary thriller about a jaded hitman, set in the criminal underworld of SeoulKill Bill meets Murakami D. B. John, author of Star of the NorthA work of literary genius Karen Dionne, internationally bestselling author of HomeI loved it! M. W. Craven, author of The Puppet ShowYoull be laughing out loud every five minutes You-jeong Jeong, author of The Good SonA mash-up of Tarantino and Camus set in contemporary Seoul Louisa Luna, author of Two Girls DownAn incredible cast of characters Le mondeSmart but lightning fast Brian Evenson, author of Last DaysPlotters are just pawns like us. A request comes in and they draw up the plans. Theres someone above them who tells them what to do. And above that person is another plotter telling them what to do. You think that if you go up there with a knife and stab the person at the very top, thatll fix everything. But no-ones there. Its just an empty chair.Reseng was raised by cantankerous Old Raccoon in the Library of Dogs. To anyone asking, its just an ordinary library. To anyone in the know, its a hub for Seouls organised crime, and a place where contract killings are plotted and planned. So its no surprise that Reseng has grown up to become one of the best hitmen in Seoul. He takes orders from the plotters, carries out his grim duties, and comforts himself afterwards with copious quantities of beer and his two cats, Desk and Lampshade.But after he takes pity on a target and lets her die how she chooses, he finds his every move is being watched. Is he finally about to fall victim to his own game And why does that new female librarian at the library act so strangely Is he looking for his enemies in all the wrong places Could he be at the centre of a plot bigger than anything hes ever known

THE PLOTTERS

Humor & Satire

HARPER/COLLINS

“[A] powerhouse of a novel....It reads as if Haruki Murakami rewrote The Day of the Jackal.” - Locus Magazine "Editor's Choice" New York Times Book Review "The Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2019" CrimeReads “Most Anticipated Books of 2019” Lit Hub "This Winter's Best Thrillers" Chicago Review of Books "Best Books of the Year" Apple A fantastical crime novel set in an alternate Seoul where assassination guilds compete for market dominance. Behind every assassination, there is an anonymous mastermind--a plotter--working in the shadows. Plotters quietly dictate the moves of the city's most dangerous criminals, but their existence is little more than legend. Just who are the plotters? And more important, what do they want? Reseng is an assassin. Raised by a cantankerous killer named Old Raccoon in the crime headquarters "The Library," Reseng never questioned anything: where to go, who to kill, or why his home was filled with books that no one ever read. But one day, Reseng steps out of line on a job, toppling a set of carefully calibrated plans. And when he uncovers an extraordinary scheme set into motion by an eccentric trio of young women--a convenience store clerk, her wheelchair-bound sister, and a cross-eyed librarian--Reseng will have to decide if he will remain a pawn or finally take control of the plot. Crackling with action and filled with unforgettable characters, The Plotters is a deeply entertaining thriller that soars with the soul, wit, and lyricism of real literary craft.

The Plotters: A Novel

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

The Plotters

Penguin Random House USA

Named a Best Thriller of the Year by: The Washington Post The Telegraph "The Plotters’s first convenient comparison may be to the ever-expanding John Wick movies" --Los Angeles Review of Books A fantastical crime novel set in an alternate Seoul where assassination guilds compete for market dominance. Behind every assassination, there is an anonymous mastermind--a plotter--working in the shadows. Plotters quietly dictate the moves of the city's most dangerous criminals, but their existence is little more than legend. Just who are the plotters? And more important, what do they want? Reseng is an assassin. Raised by a cantankerous killer named Old Raccoon in the crime headquarters "The Library," Reseng never questioned anything: where to go, who to kill, or why his home was filled with books that no one ever read. But one day, Reseng steps out of line on a job, toppling a set of carefully calibrated plans. And when he uncovers an extraordinary scheme set into motion by an eccentric trio of young women--a convenience store clerk, her wheelchair-bound sister, and a cross-eyed librarian--Reseng will have to decide if he will remain a pawn or finally take control of the plot. Crackling with action and filled with unforgettable characters, The Plotters is a deeply entertaining thriller that soars with the soul, wit, and lyricism of real literary craft.

Anchor

Random House Canada

Product Description 
Winner of the Munhakdongne Novel Award, South Korea's most prestigious literary prize.\nCabinet 13 looks exactly like any normal filing cabinet…Except this cabinet is filled with files on the ‘symptomers’, humans whose strange abilities and bizarre experiences might just mark the emergence of a new species.\nBut to Mr Kong, the harried office worker whose job it is to look after the cabinet, the symptomers are a headache; especially the one who won’t stop calling every day, asking to be turned into a cat.\nA richly funny and fantastical novel about the strangeness at the heart of even the most everyday lives, from one of South Korea's most acclaimed novelists.\nTranslated by Sean Lin Halbert 
 Review 
"[A] brilliant mosaic novel...These stories straddle the lines between science fiction, fantasy, fairy tale, and acute reality."\n- Publishers Weekly, Starred Review 
"Deftly translated by award-winning Halbert, Kim’s latest import...again showcases his sly, surreal, dark humor about all the ways humans are, well, not particularly human."\n– Booklist 
"What begins as a rather whimsical set of stories turns into a much darker novel, raising issues of difference and acceptance, what people must do to survive, and what is truly monstrous."\n– the Guardian\n"Surprising and enchanting"\n– The Washington Post\n"Un-su Kim is a tremendous writer."\n– Scott Smith, author of 
A Simple Plan"This charming and fantastical book is sure to introduce Kim to a whole new legion of weird fiction fans, ideal for readers of Han Kang’s 
The Vegetarian and the works of Haruki Murakami." 
 – Chicago Review of Books" 
The Cabinet is an anti-capitalist narrative at its core, one that makes explicit the arbitrariness of capitalist expectations and assumptions. Kim deftly juggles both macro-level and micro-level ideas about social roles, purpose, and personal narrative. More of a thought experiment than a thriller, 
The Cabinet is a lighthearted, amusing read that nonetheless dives into some deep philosophical topics." 
– Strange Horizons 
 About the Author 
Un-Su Kim made his debut as a writer in 2002 through the Jinju News Fall Literary Contest with short stories, Easy Breezy Writing Class and Dan Valjean Street and the 2003 DongA Ilbo Spring Literary Contest with his mid-length novel Farewell, Friday. His first full-length novel 
The Cabinet received the 12th Munhakdongne Novel Award.

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Europa Verlag GmbH

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