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TIME - Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2022
From the international best-selling author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 comes this chilling dystopian fable for fans of Netflix's Squid Game.
Brief description: Cho Nam-joo was a television scriptwriter for nine years. She is the author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, longlisted for the National Book Award for Translation, and most recently, Saha.
Review Quotes: A dystopian thriller with a series of intimate character sketches that form a portrait of a community. (Imagine "Winesburg, Ohio" set in "1984.")... Cho draws touching portraits of her discarded denizens... illuminat[ing] the systemic enforcement of class in the same way that "Kim Jiyoung" revealed gender inequality.... An affecting portrait of people doing their best to survive in a world that would rather pretend they didn't exist.--Lincoln Michel "New York Times Book Review"