Sang Young Park

A funny, transporting, surprising, and poignant novel that was one of the highest selling debuts of recent years in Korea, Love in the Big City tells the story of a young gay man searching for happiness in the lonely city of Seoul

Love in the Big City

대도시의 사랑법

Helen 

I think that's why I was so terrible to you. I was scared. I wanted to keep you in my tiny soy-sauce dish of a world forever.

I used to feel that l'd been given the whole world when I held you. 

I used to feel like l’d been given the whole world when I held him.

“I’m not happy about the saury. I like the universe that is you.” 

“She had always been that kind of person. Someone who knew everything, who saw through everything.” 

Because, whatever it was or wasn't, you were you.

If, at first, I felt guilty about wasting my life away, I soon came to think, Well, whatever. Let's see how far my money goes, let's go as far as life will take me.

Jaehee, who had taught me that every season is its own beautiful moment.

Rain still falls during the late rainy season, as do tears even when it's too late.

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