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(0)Anton Hur
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Love in the Big City is the English-language debut of Sang Young Park, one of Korea's most exciting young writers. A runaway bestseller, the novel hit the top five lists of all the major bookstores and went into nine printings. Love in the Big City is an energetic, joyful, and moving novel that depicts both the glittering nighttime world of Seoul and the bleary-eyed morning-after. Young is a cynical yet fun-loving Korean student who pinballs from...
2) Cursed bunny
Author
Publisher
Honford Star
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung.Blurring the lines between magical realism, horror, and science-fiction, Chung uses elements of the fantastic and surreal to address the very real horrors and cruelties of patriarchy and capitalism in modern society.Anton Hur's translation skilfully captures the way Chung's prose effortlessly glides from being terrifying to wryly humorous. --amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A successful young social media director at a publishing house chronicles her ten years of psychiatric treatment for depression and she fought back against the harmful behaviors that kept her locked in a cycle of self-abuse"--
4) Violets
Author
Publisher
The Feminist Press at the City University of New York
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"San, a neglected young woman, experiences the violence and isolation of late twentieth-century Korean society"--
Author
Publisher
Astra House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of a personal tragedy, a novelist goes back home in the Korean countryside to take care of her gentle father and learns, through the testimonies of his loving family and friends, how his lifelong kindness belies a past wrought in both private and national trauma"--
Two years after losing her daughter in a tragic accident, Hon finally returns to her home in the countryside to take care of her father. After finding a check of letters,...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"For fans of the worlds of Philip K. Dick, Squid Game, and Severance: An absorbing tale of corporate intrigue, political unrest, unsolved mysteries, and the havoc wreaked by one company's monomaniacal endeavor to build the world's first space elevator-from one of South Korea's most revered science fiction writers, whose identity remains unknown. On the fictional island of Patusan-and much to the ire of the Patusan natives-the Korean conglomerate LK...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After taking their first step into the world on June 13, 2013, BTS will celebrate the 10th anniversary of their debut in June 2023. They have risen to the peak as an iconic global artist and during this meaningful time, they look back on their footsteps in the first official book. In doing so, BTS nurtures the power to build brighter days and they choose to take another step on a road that no one has gone before. BTS shares personal, behind-the-scenes...
8) Violets
Author
Publisher
The Feminist Press at CUNY
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
By Man Asian Literary Prize winner Kyung-Sook Shin, "a moving delve into a lonely psyche" that follows a neglected young woman's search for human connection in contemporary Seoul (YZ Chin).
San is twenty-two and alone when she happens upon a job at a flower shop in Seoul's bustling city center. Haunted by childhood rejection, she stumbles through life—painfully vulnerable, stifled, and unsure. She barely registers to
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