Cover of City of Ash and Red

City of Ash and Red

Pyun Hye-young

2 ideas

  1. Exterminator Stranded in a Plague City

    An unnamed pest-control company employee is transferred abroad to the company's head office in Country C for training, arriving in a capital buried in uncollected garbage and swept by a contagious disease. Quarantine, a language he can't speak, and a lost phone and documents cut him off from his company and his home. He learns he may be a suspect in his ex-wife's death back home, hides in a park among the homeless, and survives by catching and killing rats.

  2. Exterminator and Vermin Trade Places

    The man starts as the one who controls pests and ends up living like one, sleeping in refuse, scavenging and hiding, while still killing rats to get by. This reversal shows that the line between the one who cleans and what gets cleaned is a matter of position rather than nature. Anyone pushed below that line of status becomes something disposable.

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