The Cabinet by Un-su Kim, translated by Sean Lin Halbert [in Booklist]
13 Sep, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Repost, Translation
Kong Deok-geun is an “average administrative worker,” a position for which he surpassed 137 applicants for “a job that has no work.” His boredom, so severe that he’s named it “I-would-rather-eat-dog-treats-than-suffer-this-boredom,” sends him to the fourth floor, where he discovers Cabinet 13, then spends an...