Eleanor Teasdale of Angry Robot has acquired World English Rights to Un-su Kim’s first novel, The Cabinet.

Thrilled to announce that Eleanor Teasdale of Angry Robot has acquired World English Rights to Un su Kim’s first novel, The Cabinet.  It is a brilliant literary sci-fi/literary social commentary that is universal :  a political social commentary of our world today also.  Un su Kim was so prescient about the state of the world and The Cabinet is his classic – one of a kind – novel… his Fahrenheit 451, Clockwork Orange, his Metamorphosis.  Geek Love meets Alice in Wonderland. The book is 392 pages and was first published in Korea in 2006 by Munhakdongne. Un su Kim’s second novel The Plotters was sold in twenty countries including to Doubleday US and Fourth Estate UK, and film rights were sold to Ink Factory, who are developing the script now. 

The book will be published at end of 2021 or ‘22.  TV rights are being handled by Emily Hayward Whitlock of The Artists Agency.