Korean Literature

Hope is not your typical teenage girl. After a tumultuous childhood, she is once again in a new town and a new school which her mother has dragged her to. As is often the case, she is one of the only Asian kids in an all-white school and is still dealing with family issues. Hope is struggling to adjust to her new environment as a freshman in high school, where she meets a school counselor who helps her wade through the entire school year as well as pushes her to explore her past.

Ken Hideyoshi is the new guy in Halawa Correctional Institute. He’s tough looking, a hard case. His cellmate is Cal—the mute tattoo artist of the prison who murdered his own wife. Ken, already inked with a gang symbol and a Japanese emblem, eventually asks Cal to create an elaborate tattoo on his back, in kanji script, of Musashi’s Book of the Void.

The Korean Spirit: Poems is a collection of poems that captures the hopes and the fears of ethnic Koreans around the world. Korean anxiety, heightened by the inclusion of North Korea as an axis of evil power impeding the Korean aspiration for a united Korea, has created a search for harmony among Korean individuals and Korean groups. Many of the poems in this collection express the collectively, although often privately, shared sentiment of the Korean people regarding global politics and international relations.

His tour is over, but the war rages on for Dickie, one of the forever-haunted veterans who gave up his soul during the Forgotten War. Here is a glimpse of his story, of the battleground he can never leave. Only death can conclude his final objective: closure, and peace. Join him on his road, the Korean Road, as he battles horrors he carries and those that he meets along the way.

She's always had to deal with the trouble her gambler boyfriend creates, and now she's in for it big time. Lonnie's put up his Korean beauty as part of a poker bet, and when the chips are down, she's going down as well. A shocking gangbang with interracial sex, forced deepthroat, forced first anal sex, and double penetration ensues. This Asian sex short by Stacy Reinhardt pushes all the right buttons and adds a few extra for good measure.

Mina is a professional pickpocket and thief for a huge South Korean conglomerate (chaebol) into which she was born. Having brought great shame to the chaebol as a teenager, she is obligated to work as a criminal for them. This chaebol is also a crime syndicate. She desperately wants out of her dangerous and depressing existence. She sees a ray of hope in the character of Sienna who is the complete opposite to her. She becomes obsessed with Sienna to the point she complicates things on a truly horrific scale.

Peace has returned to the Pacific after the Taiwan War, but it doesn’t last. The Korean peninsula erupts in fire and blood, drawing America into a fresh conflict that sees use of some of the world’s deadliest weapons. In the aftermath, Navy fighter pilot Jack Knapp tells a news reporter about his experiences fighting the Korean People’s Army (KPA) and how he helped prevent a nuclear attack that could have destroyed an American city.

[가디언], [선데이타임스], [코스모폴리탄]이 2020년 화제의 데뷔작으로 선정하고, 베스트셀러 저자 발 맥더미드가 "지금까지 읽은 데뷔작 가운데 최고다"라는 찬사를 보낸 『더 키퍼』가 한국어판으로 출간되었다. 섬세한 여성 서사 소설로 주목받은 저자 플린 베리가 "마지막 장을 덮을 땐 내 손으로 입을 틀어막을 수밖에 없었다"라고 평가했으며, 수많은 독자가 "상업성과 작품성을 함께 갖춘 페미니즘 스릴러"라며 극찬했다.

주인공 '나'는 삼촌의 죽음으로 대신 쇼핑몰 창고를 지키게 되고, 창고의 수상한 물품들을 약탈하기 위해 사람들은 차례차례 쳐들어온다.

The Korean Soul: A Collection of Poems by H. C. Kim explores themes and ideas that are of importance to Koreans around the world, such as the current stand-off between South Korea and North Korea. By hearing H. C. Kim's poems, the listener will be able to see through the soul of Koreans. These poems are powerful testimonies to collective experiences of a people who boast 5,000+ years of history.

Some R&R in Paris is just what the doctor ordered for Rachel Prescott, until she starts to attract unwanted attention. Casey Reddick is visiting a friend and witnesses a devastating attack that almost claims his life.

인간을 낳는 인공 포육기의 실패율을 줄이기 위해 멧돼지를 이용한 세계의 이야기. 멧돼지가 사람을 낳았다면 이 둘 사이는 어떤 관계일까요? 멧돼지는 이 아이를 어떻게 바라볼까요? 멧돼지는 어떤 마음을 가지고 있나요?

자신만의 온전한 가족을 갖고 싶은 여자, 윤은홍. 아이들과 강아지와 잔디밭을 뒹굴며 놀아 주는 아빠가 되기보다는 무시무시한 도베르만의 목줄을 풀어 주며 '물어!' 하고 음산하게 외치는 쪽이 더 어울리는 남자와 맞선을 보다.

소행성 충돌에 대한 짧은 특집 소설을 써 달라는 잡지 《과학동아》의 의뢰를 받아 쓴 소설이다. 갑작스레 뭘 써야 할지 쓸 것이 생각나지 않아 의 속편으로 썼는데, 전편의 주인공이었던 김 박사가 직장을 옮겨 공공기관 쪽 연구소에서 일하는 모습으로 다시 등장한다.

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When Eugene Kim assembles his three estranged daughters at his deathbed, he means to put them to the test. Vicious and pathetic in equal measure, he wants to test who will abject themselves for his favor—and, more importantly, his fortune. Each isolated and desperate to escape their circumstances, the sisters wrestle with the legacy of their abusive father as they attempt to imagine a future with others—colleagues, lovers, friends, family—as rage and shame courses through their blood.

『불타는 소녀들』은 비밀이 많은 작은 시골 마을에서 벌어지는 일을 그린 스릴러로 C. J. 튜더는 인터뷰를 통해 실제 자신이 이사한 마을에서 이 소설의 영감을 받았다고 밝혔다. 마을로 이사한 첫날, 차를 몰고 가다 우연히 낡은 예배당을 보았는데 이상하고 소름 끼치는 느낌을 받았다는 것이다. 그녀는 어떤 직감 같은 것을 따라 마을의 역사를 조사하게 되었고, 마을에 충격적인 과거가 있음을 알게 되었다. 500년 전, 메리 여왕 시절에 신교도 열일곱 명이 화형에 처했다는 것. 그리고 화형당한 사람들을 추모하기 위해 매년 인형을 만들어 태운다는 것. 이 끔찍한 피의 역사로부터 『불타는 소녀들』은 시작되었다.

옆집에 누가 이사를 왔군요. 분명 이사를 왔는데, 누가 살고 있는 것 같은데 꼬꼬닭은 이상하게 통 얼굴을 볼 수 없었어요. 점차 옆집에 이사 온 이를 의심하게 되고, 외출할 때는 자물쇠로 현관문을 채우고 다니는군요. 도대체 옆집에는 누가 살고 있을까요? 꼬꼬닭이 생각한 계획들을 살짝 공개합니다.

『토우의 집』은 권여선 소설가가 이룬 가장 의미 있는 문학적 성취라고 할 수 있다. '장독 뒤에 숨어서'라는 제목으로 계간 『자음과모음』을 통해 2014년 봄부터 가을까지 연재된 작품으로, 우리가 정면으로 응시해야 할 고통과 상실의 현장을 다루고 있다.

문학동네작가상과 자음과모음문학상을 수상하며 현대인의 불온한 삶과 부조리한 세계에 대한 예민하고 단단한 시선으로 남다른 작품 세계를 구축해온 작가 안보윤의 여섯 번째 장편소설 『밤의 행방』.