Walking Practice: A Novel

Squid Game meets The Left Hand of Darkness meets Under the Skin in this radical work of Korean literature in translation about an alien’s hunt for food that transforms into an existential crisis about what it means to be human.

After crashing their spacecraft in the middle of nowhere, a shapeshifting alien finds themself stranded on an unfamiliar planet and disabled by Earth’s gravity. To survive, they will need to practice walking. And what better way than to hunt for food? As they discover...