Mark Sampson
Список книг автора Mark SampsonThe Slip
A comic, thoughtful examination of viral culture through the lens of a technologically out-of-touch, middle-aged protagonist Casts a wide satirical net on an era where social media can amplify a gaffe into a full-on scandal in a matter of minutes Highlights the way social media can steer conversations for good and for ill Similar to classics of the “absent-minded professor” narrative, with nods to Evelyn Waugh, Kingsley Amis, and Mordecai Richler Author's previous book, Sad Peninsula was praised by the Guardian , Quill & Quire , Publishers Weekly , and the Literary Review of Canada Far from being a simple send-up of a social media–obsessed society, The Slip takes on the often clueless misogyny that abounds in contemporary discussions, and Philip is forced to confront his way of thinking
Sad Peninsula
A Canadian ex-pat and a Korean former «comfort woman,» each scarred by their pasts, seek redemption. Two separate lives become connected in South Korea: traumatized former Korean «comfort woman» Eun-young, who struggles with her past of rape and violence; and Michael, a troubled young Canadian arriving in Korea to teach ESL, whose principles and humanity are tested by Seoul’s seedy expatriate underbelly. A world away and two generations apart, their lives collide through the fiery Jin, who challenges stereotypes of her race and gender as well as Michael’s morality. Through meticulously crafted and heart-wrenching prose, Sad Peninsula takes the reader across oceans and decades, outlining the boundaries between seduction and coercion, between love and destruction, between a past that can’t be undone and a future that seems just out of reach.