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The black orb / Ewhan Kim ; translated by Sean Lin Halbert.

Kim, Ewhan, (author., author). Halbert, Sean Lin, (translator.).

Summary:

"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... A piercingly dark, surreal satire on mass panic, disaster response and modern masculinity."-- From publisher description.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0778387348
  • ISBN: 9780778387343
  • Physical Description: 299 pages ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : Mira, [2025]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"A novel"--Jacket.
Language Note:
Translated from the Korean.

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Subject:
Disasters > Fiction.
Science fiction, Korean.
Satire, Korean.
Korean fiction.
Seoul (Korea) > Fiction.
Genre:
Science fiction.
Dystopian fiction.
Novels.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Madison County Public Library.

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