The crustacean
Jang, Jin-Yeong2025
Book
The year's most spiky and powerful novel, told from the point of view of Lolita. Chichirim is a plain 13-year-old girl. An ordinary, misunderstood, lonely seventh-grader. A girl with a terrible secret. Her dad is worse than useless. Her mum spends all her days tattooing thick, ugly eyebrows on old women. Her parents forget her birthday, and her sister hates them so much she wishes they were dead. Chichirim does bad things at school. And still, no one cares. Until, one day, an older man picks her up on the side of the road. He tells her she is pretty. He tells her what to do. Underneath her hard outer shell, her softness is being exploited and destroyed by the people she trusts and loves the most.
Main title:
The crustacean / by Jang Jinyeong ; translated from the Korean by Chi-Young Kim.
Author:
Jang, Jin-Yeong, authorKim, Chi-Young, translator
Work:
Edition:
First edition.
Imprint:
London : Brazen, 2025.©2025
Collation:
146 pages ; 22 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Korean.
ISBN:
9781840919141 (paperback)9781840919103 (hardback)
Dewey class:
895.735
Language:
EnglishKorean
Subject:
BRN:
488310