Bøger af Gu Byeong-mo

A poignant and thought-provoking novel in the best Korean literary tradition, exploring the notion of community and women's parenting labour from the award-winning author of The Old Woman with the Knife.

"When Yojin moves with her husband and daughter into the Dream Future Pilot Communal Apartments, she's ready for a fresh start. Located on the outskirts of Seoul, the experimental community is a government initiative designed to boost the national birth rate. Like her neighbors, Yojin has agreed to have at least two more children over the next ten years. Yet, from the day she arrives, Yojin feels uneasy about the community spirit thrust upon her. Her concerns grow as communal child care begins and the other parents show their true colors. ... Will they find a way to live peacefully? Or are the cultural expectations around parenthood stacked against them from the start?--

*A New York Times Book Review Notable Book**An NPR Best Book of the Year**An NPR Book We Love**A New York Times Editors' Choice Pick**A Most Anticipated Read in LitHub, CrimeReads, Thrillist, and Popsugar**A Boston Globe Thriller to Read on Your Summer Vacation**A Crime Reads Best International Crime Fiction for 2022*The kinetic story of a sixty-five-year-old female assassin who faces an unexpected threat in the twilight of her career-this is an international bestseller and the English language debut from an award-winning South Korean author At sixty-five, Hornclaw is beginning to slow down. She lives modestly in a small apartment, with only her aging dog, a rescue named Deadweight, to keep her company. There are expectations for people her age-that she'll retire and live out the rest of her days quietly. But Hornclaw is not like other people. She is an assassin.Double-crossers, corporate enemies, cheating spouses-for the past four decades, Hornclaw has killed them all with ruthless efficiency, and the less she's known about her targets, the better. But now, nearing the end of her career, she has just slipped up. An injury leads her to an unexpected connection with a doctor and his family. But emotions, for an assassin, are a dangerous proposition. As Hornclaw's world closes in, this final chapter in her career may also mark her own bloody end.A sensation in South Korea, and now translated into English for the first time by Chi-Young Kim, The Old Woman with the Knife is an electrifying, singular, mordantly funny novel about the expectations imposed on aging bodies and the dramatic ways in which one woman chooses to reclaim her agency.

A whip-smart novel about a 60-something female assassin navigating the vulnerabilities posed by her ageing body