Tower /
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Korean Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Honford Star, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: 253 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781916277120Subject(s): Korean fiction -- Translations into English | Skyscrapers -- FictionGenre/Form: Science fiction.DDC classification: 895.73/5 Summary: Tower is a series of interconnected stories set in Beanstalk, a 674-storey skyscraper and sovereign nation. Each story deals with how citizens living in the hypermodern high-rise deal with various influences of power in their lives: a group of researchers have to tell their boss that a major powerbroker is a dog, a woman uses the power of the internet to rescue a downed fighter pilot abandoned by the government, and an out-of-towner finds himself in charge of training a gentle elephant to break up protests. Bae explores the forces that shape modern life with wit and a sly wink at the reader.
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Tower is a series of interconnected stories set in Beanstalk, a 674-storey skyscraper and sovereign nation. Each story deals with how citizens living in the hypermodern high-rise deal with various influences of power in their lives: a group of researchers have to tell their boss that a major powerbroker is a dog, a woman uses the power of the internet to rescue a downed fighter pilot abandoned by the government, and an out-of-towner finds himself in charge of training a gentle elephant to break up protests. Bae explores the forces that shape modern life with wit and a sly wink at the reader.
Translation from the Korean.