247의 모든 것

After COVID-19, near-future Korea has built a system against epidemics: a World Centers for Disease Control, heat sensors everywhere, drones that hunt down people with fevers, and fever-reducing drugs made illegal, so that anyone running a temperature must prove at a hospital that they carry nothing deadly. Case 247 of a mutant Nipah virus was caught taking illegal fever pills and mixing with people without a mask. As a super-spreader he was isolated in the farthest place humans can send anyone, a spacecraft, and he has died there. The novel gathers records and testimony about him, his name, Kim Hong-seop, his childhood friends and teachers, a pharmacist's friend, a day labourer who cleared his flat, and they contradict and complete one another.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

222 pages in the original

Genres

Speculative, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

South Korea

First published

2024 by Eunhaengnamu

Author's age

52 when first published

ISBN

9791167374233 (original)