{"product_id":"9781632064271","title":"Employee No. 9 - Jamie Chang","description":"With shades of Park Chan-wook's No Other Choice and Choi Jin-young's Hunger, Employee No. 9 runs a psychological gauntlet of money, power, duty, and the daily struggle for survival. No. 9 is in trouble. His son's college tuition is coming due, his wife needs surgery after taking double shifts at a grocery store, the apartment building they bought as a nest egg is falling apart, and the company he helped build is trying to force him into early retirement. When he refuses, the mid-level IT man is demoted to sales and given increasingly impossible tasks. As his salary dwindles and the humiliations mount, No. 9 must decide where his loyalties lie. If he fights back, how far will the company go to stop him?With her urgent and timely novel, award-winning Korean author Kim Hye-jin questions how long we can endure a corrupt system. In a rigged game, is there an alternative to playing out your hand?","brand":"Jamie Chang","offers":[{"title":"192 pages, Illustrations \/ 20\/10\/2026 \/ Modern \u0026 contemporary fiction (post c 1945)","offer_id":57556992262519,"sku":"9781632064271","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781632064271.jpg?v=1791969165","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781632064271","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}