Book review: Kim Un-su's The Plotters is a riveting, cinematic thriller about assassins in a library

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Book review: Kim Un-su's The Plotters is a riveting, cinematic thriller about assassins in a library

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Article: https://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/arts/book-review-kim-un-sus-the-plotters-is-a-riveting-cinematic-thriller-about-assassins
Journal: The StraitsTimes
Issued Date: May 27, 2019
Page: -
Language: English(English)
Country: SINGAPORE
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Book: -
Writer: Kim Un-su

About the Author

Kim Un-su
Birth : 1972 ~ -
Occupation : Novelist
First Name : Un-su
Family Name : Kim
Korean Name : 김언수
ISNI : 000000043496828X
Works : 35

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Screen adaptations of books are a dime a dozen these days. A hot title comes on the market and you can expect to see it on the screen in a year or so. But once in a while, along comes a book so inherently cinematic that it is practically a movie beaming off the pages. The Plotters by South Korean writer Kim Un-su is one such book. It is poised somewhere between the viscerally pulpy John Wick film franchise and Ernest Hemingway's fatalistic 1927 short story The Killers, but with an entirely Korean sensibility. It is a superb example of its genre, insofar as assassin thrillers constitute a genre

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