{"id":44700,"date":"2018-11-26T11:12:09","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T16:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=44700"},"modified":"2021-09-03T10:35:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T14:35:17","slug":"the-plotters-by-un-su-kim-translated-by-sora-kim-russell-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-plotters-by-un-su-kim-translated-by-sora-kim-russell-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Plotters by Un-su Kim, translated by Sora Kim-Russell [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"*STARRED REVIEW<\/strong>
\nReseng, 32, has been a professional assassin for 15 years, minus a short factory-worker stint at 22, while playing house with the love of his life. That he\u2019s survived this long \u2013 never mind his risky career, he\u2019s also a two-pack-a-day smoker with a beer-for-breakfast diet \u2013 is remarkable.<\/p>\n

Pulled from a garbage can as an infant, nunnery-raised until he turned 4, Reseng then grew up fostered by a killer called Old Racoon, living in his \u201cgloomy, labyrinthine library\u201d named the Doghouse. Discovering literacy at 9 (he never went to school), Reseng now avoids boredom and loneliness by reading books, from Sophocles to Calvino, in between his murderous assignments by \u201cthe plotters\u201d \u2013 the elite, beyond-the-law puppet masters who control their putative democracy in post-military-dictatorship style.<\/p>\n

Reseng\u2019s life continues smoothly enough until he finds a bomb in his toilet. Fortunately, he was Beer Week-upchucking; other-end purging would have been fatally explosive. His search for the bombmaker leads him to two orphaned sisters and a cross-eyed librarian from his past and onward to an ultimate plot that might save the world \u2013 or might not.<\/p>\n

The winner of prestigious prizes in Korea, Un-su Kim makes his anglophone debut, thanks to Sora Kim-Russell<\/a>, who captures his dark, dark<\/em> wit and searing sarcasm in an irresistible sociopolitical parable designed to delight and dismay.<\/p>\n

Review<\/strong>: “Fiction,” Booklist<\/em>, November 15, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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