"Set in Town, a privatised country controlled by the Seven Premiers, the Saha Estates exist in this harrowing tale of a neglected housing complex and a community who deal with the worst life has to offer. Brutal."
Town is prosperous and safe, but only if you’re a citizen with “valuable skills and assets,” which the residents of Saha Estates are not. It's a compelling story about the two sides of society: L and L2s, and those who don't have any categorisation, those perceived undeserving of a category - the Sahas, living on the edge of society, on the brink of collapse.
Everything has been taken away from them: friendships, religion, personal choice, freedom of speech. They have been independent for decades, for 40 years they have existed without oversight. Without what we have come to expect in civilised society, without even plumbing, gas lines or electricity, living in squalor.
It's a secret passageway in a world, a secluded island within an isolated country. Where people run to. Where people run from the law, from mistakes, from terror, from persecution.
When paeditrician Su is found dead, Do-kyung runs, knowing what it means and goes into hiding. He left her, unsure of whether she was alive or dead. His sister Jin-kyung is left behind and begins her quest for truth. Through this quest we meet the other inhabitants of Saha.
Translated by Jamie Chang, much like her lauded and multi-million copy selling Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, we come to care about the disparate people who have found their way to Saha. From the reluctant midwife to the "master key", survivor, unknowing test subject to the separated siblings, it's a haunting and heartbreaking Orwellian tale of oppression.
From the author of international bestseller Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
| Primary Genre | Dystopian and utopian fiction |
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From the author of international bestseller Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 ''Cho's complex, humane, and by its end utterly transfixing novel shows that it is in community that we find resilience.' i newspaper 'Like Bong Joon-ho's Academy Award-winning film Parasite and the popular Netflix series Squid Games, Saha points to the increasing inequality and lack of social mobility in South Korea. ... With global inequality on the rise, Saha's theme of human dignity quashed by the interests of mega-corporations resonates widely.' Guardian '[A]n affecting portrait of people doing their best to survive in a world that would rather pretend they didn't exist.' New York Times In a country called 'Town', Su is found dead in an abandoned car.
Saha features in the following genres: Dystopian and utopian fiction, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Science Fiction, Fiction in translation, Speculative fiction, Fiction, General Fiction, Fiction: special features
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Saha was written by Cho Nam-Joo and published by Scribner UK
Saha has 228 pages
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