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The Casual Vacancy (2-Volume Set)
The Casual Vacancy (2-Volume Set)
The Casual Vacancy (2-Volume Set)
Item#: 8983924624-32
Regular price: $49.06
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Product Description
Korean Title: Casual Vacancy
Author: J.K. Rowling
Translator: Seon-hyeong Kim
Publisher: Munhaksuchop
2-vol. set | 223*152mm

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About This Book

When Barry Fairbrother dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils¡¦. Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the town¡¯s council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations? Blackly comic, thought-provoking and constantly surprising, The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowling¡¯s first novel for adults.

"Rowling knows how to write a twisty, involving plot....She is clearly a skilled writer." (The Huffington Post )

"The Casual Vacancy is a complete joy to read....a stunning, brilliant, outrageously gripping and entertaining evocation of British society today." (The Mirror (UK) )

"Rowling has written a grand novel...a very brave book." (The Bookseller (UK) )

"A study of provincial life, with a large cast and multiple, interlocking plots, drawing inspiration from Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot...The Casual Vacancy immerses the reader in a richly peopled, densely imagined world...intelligent, workmanlike, and often funny." (The Guardian (UK) )

"The Casual Vacancy, JK Rowling's first adult novel, is sometimes funny, often startlingly well observed....Jane Austen herself would admire the way [Rowling] shows the news of Barry's death spreading like a virus round Pagford." (Telegraph (UK)


About the Author
J.K. Rowling is the author of the bestselling Harry Potter series of seven books, published between 1997 and 2007, which have sold more than 450 million copies worldwide, are distributed in more than 200 territories, translated into 74 languages, and have been turned into eight blockbuster films. She has also written two small volumes, which appear as the titles of Harry¡¯s schoolbooks within the novels. Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them and Quidditch Through The Ages were published by Scholastic Bloomsbury Children¡¯s Books in March 2001 in aid of Comic Relief. In December 2008, The Tales of Beedle the Bard was published in aid of the Children¡¯s High Level Group, and quickly became the fastest selling book of the year.

As well as an OBE for services to children¡¯s literature, J.K. Rowling is the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees including the Prince of Asturias Award for Concord, France¡¯s Légion d¡¯honneur, and the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award, and she has been a Commencement Speaker at Harvard University. She supports a wide number of charitable causes through her charitable trust Volant, and is the founder of Lumos, a charity working to transform the lives of disadvantaged children.


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