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Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park, translated by Anton Hur - a book review

  Book title : Love in the Big City /  대도시의 사랑법 Author : Sang Young Park; Anton Hur (translator, kor-eng) Publisher : Tilted Axis Press ISBN :  978-1-911284-64-2 (ebook) Year of Publication : 2021 Pages : 231 pages T his novel consists of 4 chapters. Each tells a different story from different phases of the narrator’s life throughout his early adulthood. While writing this rant/review, I tried to recall the name of the main character/narrator of the stories, because the book is being told in the first person, and I felt like his name didn’t mention much. Also, the writings of these 4 stories are pretty descriptive without having too many dialogues between the people. Some scenes/bits of the story also feel like a memoir, even an autobiographical one. However, I did recall one syllable of the narrator's name, Young .  Part one of the book—the first chapter, is titled “Jaehee” , and tells the story of his undergraduate year majoring in French literature and he hap...