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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: City of ash and red
    sub title: a novel
  title info:
    title: Chae wa ppalgang. English
  name:
    name part: P'yŏn, Hye-yŏng
    name part: 1972-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Kim-Russell, Sora
    role:
      role term: translator.
  type of resource: text
  genre: novel
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    edition: First English language edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: kor
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 245 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: For fans of J. G. Ballard and early Ian McEwan, a tense psychological thriller and Kafkaesque parable by the author of The Hole, called 'an airtight masterpiece' by the Korean Economic Daily. Distinguished for his talents as a rat killer, the nameless protagonist of Hye-young Pyun's City of Ash and Red is sent by the extermination company he works for on an extended assignment in C, a country descending into chaos and paranoia, swept by a contagious disease and flooded with trash. No sooner does he disembark than he is whisked away by quarantine officials and detained overnight. Isolated and forgotten, he realizes that he is stranded with no means of contacting the outside world. Still worse, when he finally manages to reach an old friend, he is told that his ex-wife's body was found in his apartment and he is the prime suspect. Barely managing to escape arrest, he must struggle to survive in the streets of this foreign city gripped with fear of contamination and reestablish contact with his company and friends in order to clear his reputation. But as the man's former life slips further and further from his grasp, and he looks back on his time with his wife, it becomes clear that he may not quite be who he seems. From the bestselling author of The Hole, City of Ash and Red is an apocalyptic account of the destructive impact of fear and paranoia on people's lives as well as a haunting novel about a man's loss of himself and his humanity.
  note: Hye-young Pyun ; translated from the Korean by Sora Kim-Russell.
  note: Translated from the Korean.
  subject:
    topic: Rats
    topic: Control
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Epidemics
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Dystopian
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Horror
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Literary
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Urban Life
  classification: PL994.67.H94 C4313 2018
  classification: 895.73/5
  identifier: 9781628727814
  identifier: 1628727810
  identifier: 9781628727807
  identifier: 2018025792
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180911
    record change date: 20260427182405.5
    record identifier: in00004772292