- Overview
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This novel is full of next-generation sensibilities that we all need to discover at this very moment.
- Book Intro
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Customer is set in a time when advances in genetic modification is the norm and body transformation customs are now mainstream. The story begins when Suni, a 17-year-old girl who graduated from a middle school of the lowest class in society, begins attending a high school in Sun City, a place of prosperity.
The book naturally covers issues currently dominating the news, from climate change to technology and ethics, discrimination, hate crimes, glass ceilings, and class warfare.
- About the Author
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Lee Jongsan
(English) Lee Jong-san made a literary debut with the novel, Hello, Elephant, the winner of 2012 Munhakdongne University Novel Award. Lee published three additional novels, Lazy Life, Customer, and Mud (Foundation). Customer was awarded the Queer Literary Award by Rainbow Bookmark. Lee authored short stories included in South Korea's first queer novel anthology series Q-Q Queer Short Stories Collection, Do Not Stop the Love; a science fiction anthology, Pandemic: Six Worlds; and a young adult queer romance collection, So We Love. Lee is interested in exploring complex or schizophrenic gender identity. Lee is writing a serialized fiction collection on pandemic, Bug Storm.
