The Midnight Shift: The Korean Bestselling Cult Novel - Couverture souple

Cheon, Seon-Ran

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1526679825 ISBN 13 : 9781526679826

Editeur : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025

Synopsis

A Finalist for the 2026 Locus Awards

A bestseller in Korea, a biting, fast-paced vampire murder mystery exploring queer love and the consequences of loneliness.

When four isolated elderly people die back-to-back at the same hospital by jumping out of the sixth-floor window, Su-Yeon doesn't understand why she's the only one at her precinct that seems to care. But her colleagues at the police force dismiss the case as a series of unfortunate suicides due to the patients' loneliness. But Su-Yeon doesn't have the privilege of looking away: her dearest friend, Grandma Eun-Shim, lives on the sixth floor, and Su-Yeon is terrified that something will happen to her next.

As Su-Yeon begins her investigation alone, she runs into a mysterious woman named Violette at the crime scene. Violette claims to be a vampire hunter, searching for her ex-lover, Lily, and is insistent that a vampire is behind the mysterious deaths. Su-Yeon is skeptical at first, but when a fifth victim jumps from the window, her investigation reveals the body was completely drained of blood. Desperate to discover the cause of the deaths, Su-Yeon considers Violette's explanation-that something supernatural is involved.

The Midnight Shift is a gripping mystery, overflowing with commentary about societal isolation and loneliness, the sharp knife of grief, and the effects of marginalization, perfect for readers of Cursed Bunny; Woman, Eating; and A Certain Hunger.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

A lover of sci-fi always dreaming of the universe and waiting for aliens, Cheon Seon Ran made her debut with BROKEN BRIDGE in 2019. She was awarded the Grand Prize in the 4th Korea Sci-Fi Literature Awards for her novel A THOUSAND BLUES. She's continued writing novels since.

Gene Png is a literary translator and illustrator based in Seoul. She was awarded the Grand Prize in Poetry at the 53rd The Korea Times' Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards and is a mentee of Anton Hur (translator of I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki).

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

A bestseller in Korea, a biting, fast-paced vampire murder mystery exploring queer love and the consequences of loneliness.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1526679825
• ISBN 13: 9781526679826
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: EDITIONS GALLIMARD; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8.; Assago Milano; 20090; Italie