Roadkill

Amil is a novelist, translator and essayist. She won the bronze medal at the Daesan Youth Literature Award for her short story ''You Should Want To Be a Cartoonist'', the 2018 SF Award in the Short-Mid Novel category for the titular story ''Roadkill'', and the 2020 SF Award Grand Prize for ''Rabbi''. She has also written a novel, The Forest Called You . Amil has translated Alberto Manguel''s Fabulous Monsters and Joyce Carol Oates'' Haunted , Jeanette Winterson''s Frankissstein: A Love Story , R. O. Kwon''s Incendiaries , Lucas Rijneveld''s The Discomfort of Evening and James Baldwin''s Giovanni''s Room . She writes novels using the name ''Amil'', meaning ''The Dense Self''. When translating, she uses her name, Jihyun Kim.

Product details

• Authors: Amil
• Assisted by: Archana Madhavan (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvill Secker
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 07.08.2025
• EAN: 9781787304857
• ISBN: 978-1-78730-485-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 214 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Science Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, Short Stories, FICTION / Science Fiction / General, FICTION / Dystopian, FICTION / Alternative History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Fiction in translation, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Speculative fiction, Narrative theme: Sense of place, South Korea, Feminism & feminist theory, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Gender studies: women, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls, FICTION / Feminist, Dystopian and utopian fiction, FICTION / Nature & the Environment, Narrative theme: Environmental issues / the natural world, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary