{"id":44547,"date":"2018-10-17T11:12:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T15:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=44547"},"modified":"2018-10-13T23:22:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T03:22:40","slug":"city-of-ash-and-red-by-hye-young-pyun-translated-by-sora-kim-russell-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/city-of-ash-and-red-by-hye-young-pyun-translated-by-sora-kim-russell-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Ash and Red by Hye-Young Pyun, translated by Sora Kim-Russell [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-44285\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/07\/City-of-Ash-and-Blood-Hye-Young-Pyun-BookDragon-533x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/07\/City-of-Ash-and-Blood-Hye-Young-Pyun-BookDragon-533x800.jpg 533w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/07\/City-of-Ash-and-Blood-Hye-Young-Pyun-BookDragon.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/>The first collaboration between Hye-Young Pyun and translator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sorakimrussell.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sora Kim-Russell<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/hole-hye-young-pyun-translated-sora-kim-russell-booklist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Hole\u200b<\/em><\/a> (2017), introduced one of Korea\u2019s most lauded writers to Anglophone readers. Kim-Russell\u2019s ability to replicate Pyun\u2019s stifling terror repeats here as he presents a nameless anti-hero, known only as \u201cthe man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leaving behind envious fellow employees, he\u2019s transferred to Country C to work at \u201cthe main office\u201d of a pest-extermination company. Detained overnight at the airport for being a potential health risk in a nation already plagued by a deadly virus, the man finally arrives at his prearranged apartment in a district built over a reclaimed landfill, which is oozing with filthy waste. His suitcase is stolen, including his phone, which severs any connections to his previous life. His attempt to find someone to release the dog he abandoned at home sets in motion a fugitive\u2019s odyssey marked by murder, park-bench wars, sewer hideaways, and rats.<\/p>\n<p>Stripped of identity, language, and ethics, the cost of survival for Pyun\u2019s protagonist proves to be his very humanity. A slap-in-the-face parable of the perils of society\u2019s failures, Pyun\u2019s suffocating tale reveals a future all too possible and real.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/City-of-Ash-and-Red-HyeYoung-Pyun\/pid=9707598\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Fiction,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, October 15, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first collaboration between Hye-Young Pyun and translator Sora Kim-Russell, The Hole\u200b (2017), introduced one of Korea\u2019s most lauded writers to Anglophone readers. Kim-Russell\u2019s ability to replicate Pyun\u2019s stifling terror repeats here as he presents a nameless anti-hero, known only as \u201cthe man.\u201d Leaving behind&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,37,6535,66],"tags":[84,6608,6668,8097,68,7406,25,212,216,1051],"class_list":["post-44547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-fiction","category-korean","category-repost","category-translation","tag-betrayal","tag-bookdragon","tag-booklist","tag-city-of-blood-and-ash","tag-haves-vs-have-nots","tag-hye-young-pyun","tag-immigration","tag-murder","tag-mystery","tag-sora-kim-russell"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>City of Ash and Red by Hye-Young Pyun, translated by Sora Kim-Russell [in Booklist] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/city-of-ash-and-red-by-hye-young-pyun-translated-by-sora-kim-russell-in-booklist\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"City of Ash and Red by Hye-Young Pyun, translated by Sora Kim-Russell [in Booklist] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The first collaboration between Hye-Young Pyun and translator Sora Kim-Russell, The Hole\u200b (2017), introduced one of Korea\u2019s most lauded writers to Anglophone readers. 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