Capitalists Must Starve

About the author

Born in 1989, Park Seolyeon made her debut by winning the Silcheon Munhak New Writers Prize in 2015. She is the author of A Magical Girl Retires among other novels and short story collections. In 2018, she won the Hankyoreh Literature Prize for her novel Capitalists Must Starve. Her stories have been translated into Japanese, French, German, and English. She currently lives in Seoul.
Anton Hur was born in Stockholm. He is the author of Toward Eternity and has been nominated for the International Booker Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Dublin Literary Award for his various translations including Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park and A Magical Girl Retires by Park Seolyeon. He lives in Seoul.

Product details

• Authors: Seolyeon Park
• Assisted by: Anton Hur (Translation)
• Publisher: Turnaround
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 09.09.2025
• EAN: 9781917126212
• ISBN: 978-1-917126-21-2
• No. of pages: 192
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Political, Narrative theme: Politics, Fiction: general and literary