The Cabinet
Author: Un-su KIM
Publisher: Munhakdongne
392 pages | 223*152mm
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About This Book
Winner of the 12th Munhakdongne Novel Award
The Cabinet is a story about the documents that record these symptomers
and the man who manages the documents in Cabinet 13. This seemingly
ordinary, old cabinet is filled with stories that are peculiar, strange,
eye-popping, disgusting, enraging, and touching. However, the fast
changing world is also full of all sorts of unbelievable things. Perhaps
symptomers exist not only in the novel but also in the real world.
Perhaps some of us do not accept our past and instead, erase our
memories and create new ones. Some of us might want to become a wooden
doll or a cat rather than live in pain as a human. And if you look
around, you can find those who can love no one but themselves or their
alter egos.
The narrator is an office worker in his 30's, as ordinary as the
cabinet. But he once spent 178 days drinking nothing but cans of beer.
And his colleague Son Jeong-eun is a quiet, chubby girl who draws
nobody's attention. But she also has a strange habit of devouring more
than 100 pieces of sushi at once.
In this novel, the cabinet is a container that holds all the truths of
the world. KIM Un-su puts truth into the cabinet "as it is" and keeps it
fresh under proper temperature and moisture, utilizing his precise prose
and rich style. Each episode, preposterous and weird, is intricately
interwoven with the narrator’s story are like Lego blocks that form a
perfectly assembled structure.
Unfolding peculiar and heart-freezing episodes, the author tells us that
this is an 'ordinary' story and at the same time, the truth "as it is,"
as natural as the wind blowing, flowers blossoming and snow falling. The
moment you turn the last page of the book, you will come to think about
which strange stories are inside your own cabinet. And you will be also
curious about what story the author will pull out of his cabinet next
time.
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