Author Talks: Sang Young Park 박상영

November 16, 2021 - 'Love in the Big City' is the English-language debut of Sang Young Park, one of Korea’s most exciting young writers. A runaway bestseller, the novel hit the top five lists of all the major bookstores and went into twenty-six printings as one of the highest selling debuts of recent years in Korea. Award-winning for its unique literary voice and perspective and particularly resonant with young readers, this story of a young gay man searching for happiness in the lonely city of Seoul has been a phenomenon in Korea and is poised to capture a worldwide readership. A brilliantly written novel filled with powerful sensory descriptions and both humor and emotion, 'Love in the Big City' is an exploration of millennial loneliness as well as the joys of queer life.
In this episode of Author Talks, Sang Young Park discusses his career in Korea and his English debut.
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Thank you, this was very interesting! Looking forward for more interviews with San Young Park ✨

[@quaver1239]

Am glad to be listening to this, and to “meet” Sang Young Park. *Love in the Big City* is a difficult novel for me to like (have just finished reading it), because all the young characters seem to be drinking and drunk every single day. Scares me half to death. (No, I am not even remotely religious.) What worries me is this: If this is a true depiction of Korean life, how do people remain healthy? How do they grow up and live good, long lives? If they drink themselves silly almost every day? Closing the book at the novel’s end, I thought “What the …??” So I Googled (of course) and came across this interview. Very grateful, I am, to realise that Sang Young Park is intelligent, pleasant, smiley - and not drunk! Also, reading the novel took away my desire to visit South Korea, because it left me with a mental picture of Seoul’s streets filled with drunk, shouting, singing young men, and the dangers posed by drunk people. I have wanted for a long time to visit S Korea because of the wonderful young classical pianists emerging from its schools. Am hoping that this desire will return. The book was really quite a shock. But listening to its author is pleasant, interesting and calming.