Pain Chasers
- Year of Production
- 2023
Summary
From the author of Cursed Bunny, this speculative fiction shows how human can or cannot live with pain, ironically stirring up the meaning of living.
NSTRA-14 was the perfect painkiller. The powerful and safe painkillers without side effects or being addictive, changed the culture of the pain. Bearing any pain is now suspected of being a sign of mental illness.
However, as pain disappears, people who seek the pain appear. They have created a cult, which argues that having pain is essential for being human. Their followers believe that the pain is classified as nine stages. The believers gain the sense of accomplishment by overcoming pain arranged by the cult, but this makes them evade from the real problems of their life. For the fanatic, the painkiller means the source of evil and the rejection of God and they attacked the office of the pharmaceutical company. Twelve years after the terror, the fanatics, who committed it, are found dead one by one. Traces of torture and drugs are founded in victims' bodies with the note: "The dead have been saved."
Now, police follows the traces left on the crime scenes, ruminating on the terror 12 years ago to find the murderer.
Along the way, the investigation reveals the real, complex, ugly truth around the painkiller.
NSTRA-14 was the perfect painkiller. The powerful and safe painkillers without side effects or being addictive, changed the culture of the pain. Bearing any pain is now suspected of being a sign of mental illness.
However, as pain disappears, people who seek the pain appear. They have created a cult, which argues that having pain is essential for being human. Their followers believe that the pain is classified as nine stages. The believers gain the sense of accomplishment by overcoming pain arranged by the cult, but this makes them evade from the real problems of their life. For the fanatic, the painkiller means the source of evil and the rejection of God and they attacked the office of the pharmaceutical company. Twelve years after the terror, the fanatics, who committed it, are found dead one by one. Traces of torture and drugs are founded in victims' bodies with the note: "The dead have been saved."
Now, police follows the traces left on the crime scenes, ruminating on the terror 12 years ago to find the murderer.
Along the way, the investigation reveals the real, complex, ugly truth around the painkiller.
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Greenbook Agency
As a literary agency, Greenbook Agency has imported more than 1,000 outstanding titles from all over the world. In 2017, Greenbook started representing the best-selling sci-fi author Kim Bo-Young. Soon after, Greenbook made a deal with HarperCollins for Kim Bo-Youngs 「I'm Waiting for You」, the first Korean science fiction to be published in the US market.
Since then, Greenbook has been adding more pages of deals and projects, representing numerous Korean writers, Djuna, Jeon Samhye, Jeon Heyjin,Park Moon-young, Yi seo-young, including Bora Chung, the author of 「Cursed Bunny」, which has short-listed for the International Booker Prize 2022.
Since then, Greenbook has been adding more pages of deals and projects, representing numerous Korean writers, Djuna, Jeon Samhye, Jeon Heyjin,Park Moon-young, Yi seo-young, including Bora Chung, the author of 「Cursed Bunny」, which has short-listed for the International Booker Prize 2022.
