Winner of the Munhakdongne Novel Award South Korea's most prestigious literary prize. Cabinet
13 looks exactly like any normal filing cabinet Except this cabinet is filled with files on the
symptomers humans whose strange abilities and bizarre experiences might just mark the
emergence of a new species. But to Mr Kong the harried office worker whose job it is to look
after the cabinet the symptomers are a headache especially the one who won t stop calling
every day asking to be turned into a cat. A richly funny and fantastical novel about the
strangeness at the heart of even the most everyday lives from one of South Korea's most
acclaimed novelists. Translated by Sean Lin Halbert
