Korean Literature

Riley Oh can't wait to see her sister get initiated into the Gom clan, a powerful lineage of Korean healing witches their family has belonged to for generations. Her sister, Hattie, will earn her Gi bracelet and finally be able to cast spells without adult supervision. Although Riley is desperate to follow in her sister's footsteps when she herself turns 13, she's a saram - a person without magic. Riley was adopted, and despite having memorized every healing spell she's ever heard, she often feels like the odd one out in her family and the gifted community.

1999: At the end of the millennium, the Kim family is struggling to move on after their mother, Sunny, vanished a year ago. Sixty-one-year-old John Kim feels more isolated from his grown children than ever before. One evening, their fragile lives are further upended when John finds the body of an unhoused stranger in the backyard with a letter to Sunny, leaving the family with more questions than ever. 1977: Newly married, Sunny is pregnant and has just moved to Los Angeles from Korea with her hardworking and often-absent husband.

Sori has worked her whole life to become a K-pop idol, until she realizes she doesn’t want a life forever in the spotlight. But that’s not actually up to Sori—she’s caught between her exacting mother’s entertainment company and her father’s presidential aspirations. And as the pressure to keep her flawless public image grows, the last person she should be thinking about is her ex-boyfriend.

Born with mysterious powers she does not know how to control, young Jieun accidentally causes her family to vanish. She vows to live a million lives in search of them. Finally, one night, she brings the Marigold Mind Laundry into existence. Its service: to remove the deepest pain from our hearts. Jieun listens while customers share their unhappy memories. As they speak, she transfers their sadness onto T-shirts as stains. After a spin in the washing machine, the stains become flower petals that soar into the air, and Jieun’s customers find solace.

A beautifully crafted, enriching saga inspired by East Asian mythology, The Melancholy of Untold History is Minsoo Kang’s debut novel, steeped in history like R.F. Kuang’s Babel, epic in scope like Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land, and lyrically exciting like David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, interweaving four complex yet entertaining stories as they shape and create a nation’s literary narrative through the themes of love and grief.

In “The Center for Immortality Research,” a low-level employee runs herself ragged planning a fancy gala for donors, only to be blamed for a crime she witnessed during the event, under the noses of the mysterious celebrity benefactors hoping to live forever. But she can’t be fired—no one can. In “One More Kiss, Dear,” a tender, one-sided love blooms in the AI-elevator of an apartment complex; as in, the elevator develops a profound affection for one of the residents.

드디어 헌터 캠프가 시작되었다. 이번 캠프에서 강지의 목표는 바로 1등! 1등에게 주어지는 보상 배지를 모조리 차지하면 강지도 중수 승급 심사에 도전할 수 있기 때문이다. 그런데 강지는 캠프가 시작하자마자 고민에 빠진다. 서로 다른 무기를 가진 헌터들과 한 조를 이루면 천하무적일 줄 알았는데, 강지네 D조는 도무지 마음이 안 맞기 때문이다.

러시아의 문학의 위대한 거장 레프 똘스또이의 장편소설 『안나 까레니나』가 이명현 교수의 번역으로 열린책들에서 출간되었다. 『안나 까레니나』는 똘스또이의 예술적 재능이 한창 절정기에 달했을 때 집필된 작품으로, 『전쟁과 평화』, 『부활』과 더불어 그의 3대 대표작 중 하나로 평가받는 소설이다. 표도르 도스또예프스끼와 토마스 만, 윌리엄 포크너, 블라지미르 나보꼬프 등 세계의 대문호들이 이 소설에 대한 찬사를 아끼지 않았으며, 후대의 주요 작가들의 문학 세계에 지대한 영향을 미친 작품이다. 또한 생생한 감정선과 흥미로운 서사 덕에 각종 영화나 뮤지컬로도 수차례 제작되며 많은 이들의 꾸준한 사랑을 받았다.

This is the story of a hen named Sprout. No longer content to lay eggs on command only to have them carted off to the market, she glimpses her future every morning through the barn doors, where the other animals roam free, and comes up with a plan to escape into the wild - and to hatch an egg of her own. An anthem for individuality and motherhood, The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly has captivated millions of fans in Korea, where it is a contemporary classic. Now the novel is making its way around the world.

In an Empire run on necromancy, dead sorcerers are the lifeblood. Their corpses are wrapped in chains and drained of magic to feed the unquenchable hunger for imperial conquest. Born with magic, Arienne has become resigned to her dark fate. But when the voice of a long-dead sorcerer begins to speak inside her head, she listens. There may be another future for her, if she’s willing to fight for it. Miles away, beneath a volcano, a seven-eyed dragon also wears the Empire’s chains. Before the imperial fist closed around their lands, it was the people’s sacred guardian.

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, humans are delicious. Intelligent, clever, and adaptable, the alien shifts their gender, appearance, and conduct to suit a prey’s sexual preference, then attacks at the pivotal moment of their encounter.

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Meet Noh Inji: thirty years old, five wedding rings and counting, and she’s never once been in love. When Inji takes a job at Wedding & Life, the popular matchmaking service, she never imagines her role will be with NM, their secretive marriage division that rents out “field spouses” for a fixed period to their elite clientele. Just like a real marriage, Inji’s assignments involve a wedding, some sex, and a spot of housework. It’s all tailored exactly to the client’s desires—no legal battles, no fights, no emotional baggage.

It’s as if her life only began once Moon appeared in it. The desultory copywriting work, the boyfriend, and the want of anything not-Moon quickly fall away when she beholds the idol in concert, where Moon dances as if his movements are creating their own gravitational field; on live streams, as fans from around the world comment in dozens of languages; even on skincare products endorsed by the wildly popular Korean boy band, of which Moon is the youngest, most luminous member. Seized by ineffable desire, our unnamed narrator begins writing Y/N fanfic.

이 소설은 참고서 편집자 서른세 살 영오가 죽은 아버지가 유품으로 남긴 수첩에 적힌 세 사람을 찾아나며 시작한다.

눈덩이처럼 불어나는 엄마의 병원비가 버거워서였을까. 서현은 마주 앉은 남자의 제안에 일순 마음이 흔들렸다. 그런 그녀를 예의 무료한 눈빛으로 바라보는 남자, 최지환.

이제 그만 가자." 비 오는 금요일, 따분하기만 한 소개팅 자리. 그곳에 3년 만에 나타난 엄마 친구 아들은, 이상했다. "승교, 오빠?

『이 세상에 태어나길 참 잘했다』는 경제 위기로 가정이 해체되어 가는 우리 사회에 가족의 소중함과 사랑을 주제로, 이 사회의 기둥이 될 어린이들을 위한 특별한 성장동화입니다. 태어나자마자 어머니가 돌아가시고, 아버지마저 떠난 후에 이모와 외할머니 품에서 자라게 되는 초등 5학년 '김복동'이 주인공입니다. 복동이가 미국에서 새로운 가정을 일구고 있는 아버지를 만나게 되면서, 서로의 존재와 가정이 무엇인가를 생각하게 합니다. 새로운 가족(필리핀계 어머니와 이복 동생들)을 만나면서 처음에는 서로의 존재를 이해하는 것이 쉽지 않습니다. 하지만 그들은 차츰 서로의 존재를 받아들이며, 이 세상의 생명에는 다 뜻이 있으며, 어느 것 하나 하잘 것 없는 것이 없고, 생명을 잉태해 준 가족의 소중함을 깨닫게 됩니다.

40년만의 국내 출간으로 대한민국을 뜨겁게 달궜던 『체체파리의 비법』에 이은 제임스 팁트리 주니어의 두 번째 소설집. 로커스상과 성운상 등을 수상한 작가의 대표작 '마지막으로 할 만한 멋진 일'을 비롯 11편의 국내 처음 소개작 수록.

불꽃, 민명진 연예인. 알고 보면 부잣집 딸. 스캔들에 관한 한 연예계 일인자. 완벽한 얼굴, 완벽한 몸매의 소유자. 상대를 싸움꾼으로 만드는 데 특출한 능력이 있는 성격.