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THE OLD WOMAN WITH THE KNIFE scrap

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  • ISBN

    9791162203620

  • Author

    Gu Byeong-mo구병모

  • Publisher

    Wisdom House, Inc.(주) 위즈덤하우스

  • Year Published

    2018

  • Category

    Literary Fiction 소설

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! Updated: 2024-09-30

  • Posted by Wisdom House, Inc. on 2024-09-24
  • Updated by Wisdom House, Inc. on 2025-08-05

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*Rights sold to TW, US, UK, FN, FR, DE, GR, IT, JP, PL, RS

The Story of a Sixty-Five-Year-Old Female Assassin who Faces an Unexpected Threat in the Twilight of her Career

Captivated the Hearts of Countless Readers Worldwide with its Thrilling Plot and Poignant Characters

Inspired a Film and a Musical adaptation

Translated into 11 languages

At 65-years-old, Hornclaw is beginning to slow down. She lives modestly in a small apartment, only with her aging dog, named Deadweight, to keep her company. There are expectations for people her age—that she’ll retire and live out the rest of her days quietly. But Hornclaw is not like other people. She is an assassin.

Double-crossers, corporate enemies, cheating spouses—for the past four decades, Hornclaw has killed them all with ruthless efficiency, and the less she’s known about her targets, the better. But now, nearing the end of her career, she has just slipped up. An injury leads her to an unexpected connection with a doctor and his family. But emotions, for an assassin, are a dangerous proposition. As Hornclaw’s world closes in, this final chapter in her career may also mark her own bloody end.

Author Bio 작가 소개

Gu Byeong-mo made her literary debut with the novel Wizard Bakery, which won the 2008 Changbi Award for YA Fiction. She has since published the novels Agami (Gills), Pagwa (Bruised Fruit), A Spoonful of Time, Four Neighbors’ Dinner Table, A Story Embroidered in the Heart, A Poem of Needle and Leather; the YA novels Come to Bangju, The Children of Pygmalion, and Bird Strike; and the short-story collections As Long It’s Not Me, The Red Shoes Party, and Just One Sentence. Pagwa is set to be published in the US by Hanover Square Press as The Old Woman with the Knife in 2022.

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