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  • The Cabinet

  • By: Un-su Kim
  • Narrated by: Jun Hwang
  • Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
  • 3.9 out of 5 stars (24 ratings)

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The Cabinet

By: Un-su Kim
Narrated by: Jun Hwang
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Publisher's summary

Winner of the Munhakdongne Novel Award, South Korea’s most prestigious literary prize

Cabinet 13 looks exactly like any normal filing cabinet. Except this cabinet is filled with files on the ‘symptomers’, people whose weird abilities and bizarre experiences might just mark the emergence of a new species.

But to Mr. Kong, the harried office worker who spends his days looking after the cabinet, the symptomers are just a headache; from the woman whose doppelganger broke up with her boyfriend, to the man with a ginkgo tree growing from his fingertip. And then there’s that guy who won’t stop calling, asking to be turned into a cat....

A richly funny and fantastical novel about the strangeness at the heart of even the most ordinary lives, from one of South Korea’s most acclaimed novelists.

Translated by Sean Lin Halbert

File Under: Fiction [12,000 Cans of Beer Memory Mosaicers Will Execution Inc. Monkey of All Bombs]

©2021 Un-su Kim (P)2021 Angry Robot
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Unceremonious

This book started so strong and ended up being a confusing mess with a lot of rambling. The story drags on with no cohesion or point, the focus of the main character further deteriorates the urge to continue listening. The ending is unsatisfying and overall the book probably could have been 4 hours shorter.

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