The Cabinet by Kim, Un-Su

Winner of the Munhakdongne Novel Award, South Korea's most prestigious literary prize.

Cabinet 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.

But 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.

A 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.

Translated by Sean Lin Halbert

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Author: Un-Su Kim
Publisher: Angry Robot
Published: 10/12/2021
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.30w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780857669179

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/05/2021
Booklist 09/01/2021 pg. 45

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.