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The Black Orb
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'Captivates you until the last page. Fast-paced, gripping, brilliant - a book with an accurate insight into this time filled with confusion' J. M. Lee, international bestselling author of The Investigation and Broken Summer One evening in downtown Seoul, Jeong-su is smoking a cigarette outside when...
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The Black Orb
A piercingly dark and surreal speculative novel on mass panic, disaster response and modern masculinity
A piercingly dark and surreal speculative novel on mass panic, disaster response and modern masculinity
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'Captivates you until the last page. Fast-paced, gripping, brilliant - a book with an accurate insight into this time filled with confusion' J. M. Lee, international bestselling author of The Investigation and Broken Summer
One evening in downtown Seoul, Jeong-su is smoking a cigarette outside when he sees something impossible: a huge black orb appears out of nowhere and sucks his neighbour inside.
The orb soon begins consuming other people and no one knows how to stop it. Impervious to bullets and tanks, the orb splits and multiplies, chasing the hapless residents of Seoul out into the country and sparking a global crisis with widespread violence and looting.
Jeong-su must rely upon his wits as he makes the arduous journey in search of his elderly parents. But the strangest phases of this ever-expanding disaster are yet to come, and Jeong-su will be forced to question everything he has taken for granted.
Dryly funny, propulsive and absurd, The Black Orb is terrifyingly prescient about the fragility of human civilisation.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781800815728
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 August 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Serpent's Tail
Edition: Main
Contributors:
- Translated by Sean Lin Halbert
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 30.0mm
Width: 136.0mm
Height: 214.0mm
Weight: 380g
Pages: 368
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About the Author
Ewhan Kim is the author of twelve novels. His debut The Ghosts of Evithezen, was a finalist for the Korean National Fantasy Award and his other works have won the SF Award and the Young Writers Award. The Black Orb won the Multi Award and has been translated into nine languages.
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