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The Cabinet

Winner of the Munhakdongne Novel Award, South Korea's most prestigious literary prize.

Cabinet 13 looks exactly like any normal filing cabinet…Except this cabinet is filled with files on the ‘symptomers’, humans whose strange abilities and bizarre experiences might just mark the emergence of a new species.

But to Mr Kong, the harried office worker whose job it is to look after the cabinet, the symptomers are a headache; especially the one who won’t stop calling every day, asking to be turned into a cat.

A richly funny and fantastical novel about the strangeness at the heart of even the most everyday lives, from one of South Korea's most acclaimed novelists.

Translated by Sean Lin Halbert

File UnderFiction [ 12,000 Cans of Beer | Memory Mosaicers | Will Execution Inc. | Monkey of All Bombs ]

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Published Oct 12, 2021

304 pages

Average rating: 6.78

9 RATINGS

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Community Reviews

wardbunch
Mar 26, 2025
2/10 stars
Couldn't get into this one
ediehas
Feb 28, 2025
4/10 stars
enjoyed the short, more isolated stories much more than the overarching main plot that was happening in the story. funny, quirky read, but think i was expecting more weirdness than was given.

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