Kim Un-su

Sang chaud

Hot Blood

January 9, 2020
Novel
476 pages
157 × 226 mm
22 €
9782491290009
978-2-4912-9000-9
Translated from the Korean by Kyungran Choi and Lise Charrin
																Kim Un-su, Sang chaud
																Kim Un-su, Sang chaud

Hot Blood is The Godfather in Korean sauce, in the gloomy and sordid atmosphere of Busan, the sprawling port of Korea. If Seoul is Paris, Busan is Marseille. Its inhabitants are hot-blooded, the underworld holds the top of the pavement and the docks shelter all the traffic. Between Japan and its yakuzas in the east and China and its triads in the west. Guam, a squalid district of Busan, is run by Father Sohn, a gang leader who combines cowardice and cruelty. For twenty years, Huisu has been his faithful lieutenant and spiritual son. But Huisu is forty years old and can’t stand this pathetic life anymore. So when the opportunity arises, he leaves Father Sohn and tries to live an ordinary life with the woman he has loved since childhood. But to the community, the individual is nothing, and the war between the Guam clan and the Yeongdo clan will soon bring Huisu back to the heart of chaos.

The author

Kim Un-su was born in Busan, South Korea, in 1972. As a child, Kim Un-su walked the streets of upper Busan, where poor families and aspiring thugs lived. He published his first texts, short stories, in magazines in 2002 and 2003 before releasing his first novel, totally crazy, mocking and paranoid, in 2006, The Cabinet (Gingko Publisher).
In 2010 he published his first detective novel, The Plotters (L’Aube, 2016), which assured him worldwide success. Hot Blood was published in 2017 in Korea. It has already been sold in a dozen countries, including Doubleday (publisher of Dan Brown, Stieg Larsson and others). Kim received the Munhakdongne Fiction Prize for The Cabinet in 2006, and was a finalist for the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière in 2016 for The Plotters.

January 9, 2020
Novel
476 pages
157 × 226 mm
22 €
9782491290009
978-2-4912-9000-9
Translated from the Korean by Kyungran Choi and Lise Charrin