{"product_id":"the-midnight-timetable","title":"The Midnight Timetable","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781761381690\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Trade paperback (UK)\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2025\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Scribe Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author and translator of the National Book Award finalist and Booker Prize shortlisted \u003ci\u003eCursed Bunny\u003c\/i\u003e, comes a new novel-in-ghost-stories, set in a mysterious research centre that houses cursed objects, where those who open the wrong door might find it's disappeared behind them, or that the echoing footsteps they're running from are their own ...\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe acclaimed Korean horror and sci-fi writer's goosebump-inducing new book follows an employee on the night shift at the Institute. They soon learn why some employees don't last long at the centre. The handkerchief in Room 302 once belonged to the late mother of two sons, whose rivalry imbues the handkerchief with undue power and unravels those around it. The cursed sneaker down the hall is stolen by a live-streaming, ghost-chasing employee, who later finds he can't escape its tread. A cat in Room 206 reveals the crimes of its former family, trying to understand its own path to the Institute's halls.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut Chung's haunted institute isn't just a chilling place to play. As in her astounding collections \u003ci\u003eCursed Bunny\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eYour Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e, these violent allegories take on the horrors of animal testing, conversion therapy, domestic abuse, and late-stage capitalism. Equal parts bone-chilling, wryly funny, and deeply political, \u003ci\u003eThe Midnight Timetable\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterful work of literary horror from one of our time's greatest imaginations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'With a bone-dry wit and biting allegorical edge, expertly captured in Hur's translation, Chung turns the haunted-object trope into a vehicle for radical empathy and sharp critique. Part fable, par","brand":"RANDOM HOUSE","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41496150868101,"sku":"PR397686","price":50.2,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/image_TNXB6PXPBHD3.jpg?v=1768972257","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.co.nz\/products\/the-midnight-timetable","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}