Old Trees
The Old Woman with the Knife
By Gu Byeong-Mo & Chi-Young Kim
24 Jan, 2024
Translation
Gu Byeong-Mo’s The Old Woman with the Knife is a stand-alone thriller. First published as Pagwa in 2013, the 2022 English translation is by Chi-Young Kim.
Hornclaw is an unremarkable-appearing sixty-five-year-old woman. Hornclaw conscientiously avoids any detail that might stick in people’s minds. After all, it would not do to be a memorable-appearing “disease control specialist” … or as the police might phrase it if they ever caught her, assassin for hire.