Nooroongji Book Club Korean Book Festival Edition: Love in the Big City

Name: Nooroongji Book Club Korean Book Festival Edition: Love in the Big City
Start: 2026-10-09T18:30:00-07:00
End: 2026-10-09T21:00:00-07:00
Location: After hours entrance to the Net Loft is through the EAST(Alimentaria) side door only.

Schedule

Fri Oct 09 2026 at 06:30 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

After hours entrance to the Net Loft is through the EAST(Alimentaria) side door only. | Vancouver, BC

Hey booklovers! This is a special edition of our book club in honour of the Korean Book Festival.
About this Event

Join us at Nooroongji Books on October 9 for the English language session of a special Korean Book Festival edition of our book club, to discuss Park Sang-young's Love in the Big City, translated by Anton Hur.

Funny, candid, and tender, the novel follows a young gay man through friendship, family, desire, and loneliness in contemporary Seoul. Together, we’ll discuss the characters, narrative voice, and depictions of intimacy, and share the passages and questions that stay with us.

Presented in collaboration with UBC’s Department of Asian Studies, this session forms part of a three-part series bringing readers of the Korean original and English translation into conversation:

• October 1 — Korean-edition book club at UBC
• October 9 — English-edition book club at Nooroongji Books
• October 16 — Author gathering with Sang Young Park at Nooroongji Books

This registration is for the October 9 English-edition session only. If you'd like to attend the October 1st Korean language session please email [email protected]. If you would like to attend the bilingual author gathering with Park Sang-young, please visit this link to register.

ABOUT LOVE IN THE BIG CITY

Love in the Big City follows Young through friendship, family, desire, heartbreak, and the nightlife of contemporary Seoul. Candid, funny, and emotionally incisive, the novel examines queer life, millennial loneliness, and the tenuous forms that intimacy can take.

The English translation by Anton Hur was longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Park Sang-young is a Korean novelist, screenwriter, and essayist based in Seoul. His work includes the bestselling short-story collection The Tears of an Unknown Artist, or Zaytun Pasta and the internationally acclaimed novel Love in the Big City.

Complement your book club experience with a free screening of the film adaptation of the novel at The Revue Stage on October 9th! 3 screening times are available, with registration required. A 15 minute free Korean language mini-lesson will precede each showing. Please register at the Korean Book Festival website, and explore other events around the city!