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Orange and the Bread Knife

Name: Orange and the Bread Knife
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781035434985
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The Chilling Korean Bestseller - where one woman decides she has had ENOUGH

By Cheong Ye

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The thrilling high-concept Korean bestseller about conforming to society's standards. HAPPINESS IS ALWAYS A CHOICE Youngah is a warm-hearted schoolteacher - always smiling, always yielding. She bends her life to everyone else's rules. But deep inside, this endless restraint is killing her. An unending sense of... Read More

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Orange and the Bread Knife

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The thrilling high-concept Korean bestseller about conforming to society's standards, where one woman decides she has HAD ENOUGH - with the creepy dystopian undercurrent of a Black Mirror episode, perfect for fans of EARTHLINGS by Sayaka Murata and DIARY OF A VOID by Emi Yagi.

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The thrilling high-concept Korean bestseller about conforming to society's standards.

HAPPINESS IS ALWAYS A CHOICE

Youngah is a warm-hearted schoolteacher - always smiling, always yielding. She bends her life to everyone else's rules. But deep inside, this endless restraint is killing her. An unending sense of despair festers.

Desperate for relief, she turns to a cutting-edge, four-week emotion regulation programme, which promises to sculpt her into a better version of herself.

The procedure works a little too well.

Unburdened at last, Youngah embraces her raw, unfiltered self, dismantling the weight of the exhausting expectations and ideals imposed upon her.

WHO WOULD EVER CRAWL BACK WHEN FREEDOM FEELS THIS GOOD?

Orange and the Bread Knife is translated from the Korean by Slin Jung.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781035434985

Publisher: Headline Publishing Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 June 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wildfire

Contributors:

Translated by Slin Jung

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 135.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 208

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About the Author

Cheong Ye is a writer who secretly rinses kimchi in water before eating it. She is the winner of the Excellence Prize in the 9th Kyobo Bookstore Story Contest (short fiction), Grand Prize in the 4th Com2uS Global Content Literature Awards, and Grand Prize in both the 1st and 2nd K-Story Contests. She also received the Grand Prize for novel-length work at the 6th Korean Science Fiction Literature Awards.

She has signed multiple adaptation contracts for screen productions and selected as one of '12 Young Writers Shaping the Future of Korean Literature 2024' by Yes24, and one of '20 Young Writers Shaping the Future of Korean Literature 2025'.