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! Updated: 2024-02-28

  • Posted by Munhakdongne Publishing Corp. on 2024-02-28
  • Updated by on 2024-12-09

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A first full-length novel by Park Sang-young—the author longlisted for the Booker Prize International, winner of Young Author Award and Shin Dong-yeop Litearture Award.

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Park Sang-young, an author longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize International, presents his first novel. He has depicted love and loss of young adults with vigor. In I WANT TO BE ONE-DIMENSIONAL, he sets his eyes onto a point in life called “adolescence” and explores the fundamental world that made us who we are now. Park attracted readers with his witty sense of humor through his short stories and series of stories, LOVE IN THE BIG CITY; now he delves into the darkest memories of younger times buried deep inside ourselves in I WANT TO BE ONE-DIMENSIONAL.

I WANT TO BE ONE-DIMENSIONAL circles around the curious incident in the past and builds tension by telling stories of the present in between. This book is a thriller, a page-turner in the search of what happened and who sent the message, but it is also a heart-aching love story, a coming-of-age novel that shows the pain everyone can relate to. The novel also vividly tells the lifestyle of the early 2000s in Korea: discrimination based on housing prices and academic levels, school life full of violence and peer pressure, deriving from fierce competition for college. By remembering these times, “I” relives his sweet and painful memories of the past—to discover that the past, when they had sometimes hurt and healed each other, is what makes him who he is now. “I” is then able to face his past self and take a step forward to fully embrace himself.

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Sang Young Park was born in Daegu, South Korea in 1988. He studied French and journalism at Sungkyunkwan University and attended the creative writing master’s program at Dongguk University. He launched his writing by winning the 2016 Munhakdongne New Writer’s Award for “Searching for Paris Hilton.” He is the author of the short story collection The Tears of an Unknown Artist, or Zaytun Pasta (2018), the serial novel Love in the Big City (2019), and the essay collection Sleeping Hungry (2020). He has received the 2018 and 2019 Young Writer’s Award, and the 2019 Heo Gyun Literary Award. The English translation of Love in the Big City is forthcoming from Tilted Axis Press and Grove Atlantic in 2021.

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