Korean Literature

In a race to stop an ancient evil from destroying the worlds as they know them, Sunny comes to a startling, heartbreaking realization: if she chooses love—everything will burn. Sunny Cho aspires to be the dullest, least interesting person in any given room, which can be challenging for a nine-tailed fox spirit. So she drifts from city to city—staying clear of any and all attachment—and keeps her fox buried deep inside her. It is better this way. She would rather live as half of herself than risk losing control of her terrible powers.

Twelve-year-old Jordan feels like he can't live up to the example his older sister set or his parent's expectations. When he returns home from school one day hoping to hide his suspension, Los Angeles has reached a turning point. In the wake of the acquittal of the police officers filmed beating Rodney King, as well as the shooting of a young Black teen, Latasha Harlins, by a Korean store owner, the country is at the precipice of confronting its racist past and present.

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.

유비, 관우, 장비 세 사람이 만나 복숭아나무 아래에서 의형제가 되기로 맹세하는 부분부터 시작됩니다. 환관 십상시가 권력을 휘두른 이야기, 동탁이 정권을 마음대로 뒤흔든 이야기, 손견이 옥쇄를 감춘 이야기 등 흥미로운 이야기가 이어지고, 술이 식기도 전에 관우가 화웅의 목을 베어 오는 이야기나 유비, 관우, 장비가 여포와 싸우는 이야기를 읽을 때면 손에 땀을 쥐게 됩니다. 초선이 나라를 구하기 위해 자신을 희생한 이야기를 읽고 나면 가슴이 뭉클해질 것입니다. 동탁이 황제를 폐위하는 장면이나 조조가 아버지의 복수를 하는 장면을 보면 머리카락이 곤두서기도 합니다.

When the Seoul police inform Min that his girlfriend Yu-jin has committed suicide, he’s sure it can't be true. She was successful, ambitious, happy, just on the cusp of graduating from university and claiming the future she’d always dreamed of.

A woman meets her next-door neighbor and loans her a spatula, then starts suffering horrific gaps in her memory. A man, feeling jilted by an unrequited love, becomes obsessed with sorting through his neighbors' garbage in the belief that it will teach him how to better relate to people. A landlord decides to raise the rent, and his tenants hatch a plan to kill him at a team-building retreat. In 10 captivating, unnerving stories, Flowers of Mold presents a range of ordinary individuals who have found themselves left behind by an increasingly urbanized and fragmented world.

Elena Soo has always felt overshadowed. Whether by her more successful older sisters, her more popular twin brother, or her more outgoing best friend, everyone except Elena seems to know exactly who they are and what they want. But she is certain about one thing—she has no interest in going to prom. While the rest of the school is giddy over corsages and dresses, Elena would rather spend her time working to save the local community center. So when international K-pop superstar Robbie Choi shows up at her house to ask her to prom, Elena is more confused than ever.

Katrina Kim may be broke, the black sheep of her family, and slightly unhinged, but she isn’t a stalker. Her obsession with her co-worker, Kurt, is just one of many coping mechanisms—like her constant shape and number rituals, or the way scenes from her favorite children’s book bleed into her vision whenever she feels anxious. But when Katrina finds a cryptic message from Kurt implying he’s aware of her surveillance, her tenuous hold on a normal life crumbles. Driven by compulsion, she makes a midnight visit to the Cayatoga Bridge—just in time to witness Kurt’s suicide.

A long-married couple is forced to confront their friend's painful past when a church revival comes to a nearby town ... A woman in an arranged marriage struggles to connect with the son she hid from her husband for years ... A well-meaning sister unwittingly reunites an abuser with his victims. Through an indelible array of lives, Yoon Choi explores where first and second generations either clash or find common ground,

Snow Hunters traces the extraordinary journey of Yohan, who defects from his country at the end of the Korean War, leaving his friends and family behind to seek a new life on the coast of Brazil. Throughout his years there, four people slip in and out of his life: Kiyoshi, the Japanese tailor for whom he works; Peixe, the groundskeeper at the town church; and two vagrant children named Santi and Bia. Yohan longs to connect with these people, but to do so he must let go of his traumatic past.

열한 살 같은 반 친구들인 벨, 테스와 줄리앙에게는 수요일 오후에 비밀스러운 의식이 생겼다. 바로 마법의 나라 벨제락으로 통하는 비밀의 문을 여는 간식 타임인데... 마법의 나라 나라 벨제락에는 치즈곰과 무슈 뒤포르크처럼 말하는 동물들이 있고, 반짝이지만 위험한 파란색 숲도 있다. 이 숲에서는 이상한 음악이 들려오고, 더욱 이상한 동물들이 나타나는데... 그리스 신화 속의 오르페우스와 에우리디케 이야기는 무슨 의미일까? 아이들은 과연 집으로 돌아갈 수 있을까? 구원은 어디서 나타나는 것일까?

『추남, 미녀』는 샤를 페로의 동화 「고수머리 리케」를 현대적으로 재해석한 작품으로, 추하지만 천재인 남자와, 아름답지만 멍청해 보이는(사실은 멍청하지 않다) 여자라는 두 주인공을 등장시키고 있다.

In a world where Saints are monsters and Wonderland is the dark forest where they lurk, it’s been five years since young witches and lovers Caro Rabbit and Iccadora Alice Sickle were both sentenced to that forest for a crime they didn’t commit—and four years since they shattered one another’s hearts, each willing to sacrifice the other for a chance at freedom. Now, Caro is a successful royal Saint-harvester, living the high life in the glittering capital and pretending not to know of the twisted monster experiments that her beloved Red Queen hides deep in the bowels of the palace.

In crisp, unembellished prose, Eunyoung Choi paints intimate portraits of the lives of young women in South Korea, balancing the personal with the political. In the title story, a fraught friendship between an exchange student and her host sister follows them from adolescence to adulthood. In "A Song from Afar", a young woman grapples with the death of her lover, traveling to Russia to search for information about the deceased. In "Secret", the parents of a teacher killed in the Sewol ferry sinking hide the news of her death from her grandmother.

On the outside, Yumi Chung suffers from #shygirlproblems, a perm-gone-wrong, and kids calling her "Yu-MEAT" because she smells like her family's Korean barbecue restaurant. On the inside, Yumi is ready for her Netflix stand-up special. Her notebook is filled with mortifying memories that she's reworked into comedy gold. All she needs is a stage and courage.

8년 만에 선보이는 김종광의 다섯 번째 소설집. 소싯적 놀 만큼 놀아본 범골 어르신들이 건네는 노는 법의 진수. 나들이하듯 가벼이 세상을 활보하는 그들이 '한 수' 가르쳐주러 때 빼고 광 내고 행차하셨다!

On the outskirts of Rainbow Town, there is an old, abandoned house. They say that if you send a letter detailing your misfortunes there, you could receive a ticket. If you bring this ticket to the house on the first day of the rainy season, you'll be granted entrance into the mysterious Rainfall Market—where you can choose to completely change your life. No one is more surprised than Serin when she receives a ticket. Lonely and with no real prospects for a future, Serin ventures to the market, determined to create a better life for herself.

In South Korea, a 105-year-old woman receives a letter. Ten days later, she has been thrust into the afterlife, fighting to head off a curse that will otherwise devastate generations to come. Hak Jeonga has always shouldered the burden of upholding the family name. When she sent her daughter-in-law to America to cover up an illegitimate birth, she was simply doing what was needed to preserve the reputations of her loved ones. How could she have known that decades later, this decision would return to haunt her?

대부분이 피난을 가서 텅 비어 있는 서울, 갑작스레 사상과 권력이 뒤바뀌고 이분법적 논리와 인식의 틀이 몇 안 남은 사람들의 삶도 깊이 갈라놓는다. 『목마른 계절』은 마구잡이로 뒤섞이고 무너져 내리던 혼돈 속 서울에서 1년간 벌어진 이야기를 인민군 부역을 하는 여대생 진이의 시각에서 그린 작품이다.

Yeongju is burned out. With her high-­flying career, demanding marriage, and busy life in Seoul, she knows she should feel successful, but all she feels is drained. Yet an abandoned dream nags at her, and in a leap of faith, she leaves her old life behind. Quitting her job and divorcing her husband, Yeongju moves to a small residential neighborhood outside the city, where she opens the Hyunam-dong Bookshop.