Wildly inventive, fast-paced, and glowing with heart, OXFORD SOJU CLUB is an unforgettable debut. A spy thriller interlacing the paths of three individuals embroiled in what threatens to become an international incident, this book stayed with me long after I’d finished it, not only for its breakneck plot but the poignant way it describes trying to exist between worlds and to carve a place of your own in between. Jinwoo Park has a lifelong reader in me.
Jinwoo Chong, author of Flux
Jinwoo Park’s Oxford Soju Club would be right at home amongst the works of Herron and le Carré with its tight turns of plot and thoughtfully considered lingo. But on top of crafting a clever spy thriller, Park uses its vernacular of shifting alliances, donned masks, and the training one undergoes to assimilate to deftly probe questions of diasporic identity and how we decide where we belong. Sly, ingenious, and profoundly felt—I loved it.
Elaine U. Cho, author of Ocean's Godori
Wildly inventive, fast-paced, and glowing with heart, OXFORD SOJU CLUB is an unforgettable debut. A spy thriller interlacing the paths of three individuals embroiled in what threatens to become an international incident, this book stayed with me long after I’d finished it, not only for its breakneck plot but the poignant way it describes trying to exist between worlds and to carve a place of your own in between. Jinwoo Park has a lifelong reader in me.
Jinwoo Chong, author of Flux
Jinwoo Park’s Oxford Soju Club would be right at home amongst the works of Herron and le Carré with its tight turns of plot and thoughtfully considered lingo. But on top of crafting a clever spy thriller, Park uses its vernacular of shifting alliances, donned masks, and the training one undergoes to assimilate to deftly probe questions of diasporic identity and how we decide where we belong. Sly, ingenious, and profoundly felt — I loved it.
Elaine U. Cho, author of Ocean's Godori
On top of crafting a clever spy thriller, Park uses its vernacular of shifting alliances, donned masks, and the training one undergoes to assimilate to deftly probe questions of diasporic identity and how we decide where we belong.
Elaine U. Cho, author of Ocean's Godori
Wildly inventive, fast-paced, and glowing with heart, Oxford Soju Club is an unforgettable debut. A spy thriller interlacing the paths of three individuals embroiled in what threatens to become an international incident, with a breakneck plot and a poignant way of describing trying to exist between worlds and to carve a place of your own in between.
Jinwoo Chong, author of Flux