• Holy Boy - Lee Heejoo

    Holy Boy – Lee Heejoo

    One Idol.
    Four Fans.
    A Bloody Mess.

     »Yosep was the only thing in her world. »

    A K-Pop idol with legions of adoring disciples, Yosep, is the fallen angel of the music industry. Impossibly beautiful, his perfection inspires a near-religious devotion in his fans. But for an elect few, this dedication will spill over into delusion.

    Four fans – Mihee, Nami, Heeae and their ringleader Ahnna – hatch a plot to satiate their shared hunger: kidnap.

    Plagued by paranoia, and with their grip on reality slowly loosening, the women use increasingly disturbing strategies to keep Yosep in their possession. As they plunge into a hallucinatory hellfire of betrayal and murder in the name of their beloved, the group threaten to drag this young angel into the flames with them . . .

    Holy Boy is a thrilling novel that defies expectations until the final page with its deadly puzzle-box of literary tricks. An astonishing indictment of contemporary celebrity and parasocial desire, Holy Boy is the tale of one life told through the bloody kaleidoscope of unstoppable obsession.

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  • The world after Gaza

    The world after Gaza

    Memory of the Holocaust, the ultimate atrocity of Europe »s civil wars and the paradigmatic genocide, has shaped the Western political and moral imagination in the postwar era. Fears of its recurrence have been routinely invoked to justify Israel »s policies against Palestinians. But for most people around the world – the  »darker peoples », in W. E. B. Du Bois »s words – the main historical memory is of the traumatic experiences of slavery and colonialism, and the central event of the twentieth century is decolonisation – freedom from the white man »s world.

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  • Alchemy of secrets - Stephanie Garber

    Alchemy of secrets – Stephanie Garber

    It starts with a class in an old movie theater.

    Folklore 517: Local Legends and Urban Myths, taught by a woman called the Professor. Most students believe the Professor’s stories are just fiction, but Holland St. James has always been convinced that magic is real. When she tracks down a local legend named the Watch Man, who can supposedly tell you when you’ll die, the world finally makes sense. Except that the Watch Man tells her she will die at midnight tomorrow unless she finds an ancient object called the Alchemical Heart.

    With the clock ticking, Holland is pulled deeper into this magical world in the heart of Los Angeles—and into the path of a magnetic stranger. Everything about him feels like a bad idea, but he promises Holland that her sister sent him to protect her. As they chase clues and stories that take them closer to the Alchemical Heart, Holland realizes everyone in this intoxicating new world is lying to her, even this stranger. And if she can’t figure out whom to trust, not even the Alchemical Heart will save her.

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