Cheon Seon-ran Libri

A bestseller in Korea, a biting, fast-paced vampire murder mystery exploring queer love and the consequences of loneliness. When four isolated elderly people commit suicide 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. Dismissing the case as a series of unfortunate events due to the patients' loneliness, the police force doesn't engage. 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 Wanda at the crime scene. Wanda, hot on the trail of her ex-lover, Lily, gives Su-Yeon the answer to her investigation: a vampire did it. Su-Yeon is skeptical at first, but then a fifth victim jumps from the window and her investigation reveals the body was completely drained of blood. Desperate to discover the cause of the deaths, Su-Yeon considers Wanda'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.

Das einstige Spitzenrennpferd Today, das, gnadenlos zu Höchstleistungen getrieben, wegen seiner kaputten Gelenke eingeschläfert werden soll; Koli, der zerborstene Roboter-Jockey, der durch eine Chip-Verwechslung menschliche Gefühle besitzt, die er eigentlich nicht haben dürfte, Eunhye, die an den Rollstuhl gefesselt ist, da ihre Mutter das Geld für die Transplantation künstlicher Beine nicht aufbringen kann, Yeonjae, die vor einer ungewissen Zukunft steht, und Bogyeong, die unendlich um ihren verlorenen Gefährten trauert ... Dieser zauberhafte Roman gibt seinen Figuren, die in einer sich immer rasanter drehenden kapitalistischen Welt abgehängt zu werden drohen, eine Stimme. So ist Tausend Arten von Blau eine Geschichte über Hoffnung, Trost und die wahre Bedeutung von Glück.