Korean Literature

This audiobook contains touching accounts of struggles and achievements of Korean Americans and serves an important primary source material for understanding the Korean teenage experience in the United States. This audiobook contains biographical accounts of a diverse group Korean Americans. Kenny Yoon, a junior at Horace Mann School in New York, is a part of the gifted music program at The Julliard School. Kenny describes how he came to play violin and how he hopes to bring joy to people through music.

One evening in downtown Seoul, Jeong-su is smoking a cigarette outside when he sees something impossible: a huge black orb appears out of nowhere and sucks his neighbor inside. Jeong-su manages to get away, but the terrifying sphere can move through walls, so he’s sure he won’t be able to hide for long. The orb soon begins consuming every person caught in its path, and no one knows how to stop it. Impervious to bullets and tanks, the orb splits and multiplies, chasing the hapless residents of Seoul out into the country and sparking a global crisis with widespread violence and looting.

Years later, the Korean War is a distant memory for the parents hosting their children for a Christmas party. But when an old photograph rekindles those memories, they're soon wrapped up in telling their children how they fell in love. As a nurse and a downed pilot, they'd found themselves on the run from the enemy - but the only thing that could snare them was true love.

Working with Seoul’s premiere matchmaker, Jisu’s traditional South Korean parents are determined to ensure her success in life and love by matching her with the right boyfriend. After one too many slip-ups at school, Jisu finds herself shipped off to San Francisco to focus on her academics and approved dates, leaving her little space to figure out her own dreams. As her newly realized passion for photography lights her on fire, Jisu wonders...does she even want to find "The One"?

For the first time, Euna Lee - the young wife, mother, and film editor detained in North Korea - tells a harrowing, but ultimately inspiring, story of survival and faith in one of the most isolated parts of the world. On March 17, 2009, Lee and her Current TV colleague Laura Ling were working on a documentary about the desperate lives of North Koreans fleeing their homeland for a chance at freedom when they were violently apprehended by North Korean soldiers.

How the mighty have fallen. Anna K, once the golden girl of Greenwich, CT, and New York City, has been brought low by a scandalous sex tape and the tragic death of her first love, Alexia Vronsky. At the beginning of the summer, her father takes her to the other side of the world, to connect with his family in South Korea and hide her away. Back in the US, Lolly has forgiven Steven for cheating on her, and their relationship feels stronger than ever. But when Lolly meets a boy at her beloved theater camp, she has to ask herself how well Steven will ever really know her.

한 달 뒤, 엄청난 속도로 날아오는 운석과 지구가 충돌한다. 라디오에서 지구 최후의 날을 카운트다운하는 건조한 기계음만 흘러나온다. 거리는 소란스럽다. 지금을 살기 위해 약탈과 방화를 하는 사람들, 대피소에서 가만히 운명을 기다리는 사람들, 단 일 퍼센트의 생존 가능성에 희망을 걸고 앞날을 대비하는 사람들로 가득하다. 『일 퍼센트』는 지구 종말로부터 살아남을 수 있다는 일 퍼센트 그래서 상위 일 퍼센트가 될 수 있다는 욕심 때문에 이성을 잃어 가는 지후네 가족의 모습을 그렸다.

황제를 꿈꾸는 조조의 이야기부터 시작됩니다. 관우가 유비와의 의리를 지키기 위해 목숨을 걸고 두 형수를 유비에게 데려간 이야기는 우리의 가슴을 뭉클하게 합니다. 2권에서 가장 흥미로운 부분은 조조와 원소, 두 영웅이 다투는 관도 대전입니다. 관도에서 승리한 조조는 북방을 통일한 뒤 남방으로 눈을 돌립니다. 유비는 조조의 눈을 피해 어쩔 수 없이 형주 자사 유표에게 몸을 기대게 됩니다. 그러나 유비를 미워하는 채모는 끊임없이 그를 없애려고 합니다.

Korean-American adoptee Siobhan O'Brien has spent much of her life explaining her name and her family to strangers, but a more pressing problem is whether to carry on the PI agency that her dead boss unexpectedly left to her. Easing into middle age, Siobhan would generally rather have a glazed donut than a romance, but when an old friend asks Siobhan to find her daughter who has disappeared from her dorm, the rookie private detective's search begins at Llewellyn College.

Mina is the perfect daughter. Bound for Harvard, president of the honor society, straight A student, all while she works at her family's dry cleaners and helps care for her hearing-impaired younger sister. On the outside, Mina does everything right. On the inside, Mina knows the truth. Her life is a lie.

From master storyteller An Na comes the Printz Award-winning novel about a Korean girl who tells her firsthand account of trying to find her place and identity in America from the day she leaves Korea as a child to her rocky journey through the teenage years.

전국을 뒤흔든 전대미문의 유괴사건, 그 시작과 끝을 쫓는 압도적 미스터리 주간문춘 미스터리 베스트 2위 | 아마존 일본, 기노쿠니야 서점 베스트셀러 2020 '이 미스터리가 대단하다!' 선정 | 2020 '미스터리가 읽고 싶다' 선정 《죄의 궤적》은 7년 만에 발표된 오쿠다 히데오의 장편소설로, 전대미문의 유괴사건을 일으킨 범인이 죄를 저지르게 되는 과정과 이를 추적하는 형사의 집념 어린 수사를 그린다.

노인은, 제 인생을 출발점부터 나락으로 끌어내린 명백한 원인이었다. 그래서 은수는 그의 곁에 머물며 복수하기 위해 자신의 정체를 숨기고 그의 간병인을 자처한다. 하지만 소설 속 '수상한' 간병인 은수는 사실 단 한 순간도 수상하지 않다.

소나기가 지나 무지개가 떠오른 점심시간, 모모세는 같은 학년 미소노 레이와 운명적으로 만난다. 클래스메이트와 왠지 거리를 두고 있는 레이는 이상하게 모모세에게만 마음을 연다. 어릴 적 트라우마로 '싫다'는 말을 하지 못하는 모모세는 이 성격 탓에 레이의 부탁을 거절 못하고, 함께 문화제에서 '어떤 작전'을 실행하기로 한다. 점점 서로에게 다가가는 모모세와 레이.

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.

어느 날 우연히 류현의 품 안으로 날아들다. 검댕 묻은 외로운 별이 천사가 되다.

Judith's struggles to fit in as a half-Korean, half-Jewish kid in a tough urban neighborhood. But music lessons gave her a purpose and passion. Then chaos strikes: Judith's first love, who dumped her decades ago, returns to dazzle her with his golden pedigree and brilliant career. Her long-absent father arrives out of the blue with a snazzy car and a con man's patter, turning her mother into a love-struck flirt whom Judith barely recognizes.

North Korea has achieved a breakthrough with nuclear warheads and is about to arm their strategic missiles - weapons that could set the world ablaze. The Echo Six unit commander, Abe Talley, is ordered to take his men across the 38th Parallel. Their mission is to locate and destroy the nukes, as well as their creators. They must enter the heart of the most secretive, repressive, and brutal nation on Earth - and somehow find a way back.

Twelve-year-old Lia Park and her best friend, Joon, are now full-time students at International Magic Academy after defeating corrupt diviner Gaya, and their first assignment is an ambitious one. The evil nine-headed monster and King of Darkness, Jihaedaegukjeok, wants to destroy the three Heavenly Heirlooms that create fire and light to plunge the world into darkness and destroy humanity. The heirlooms can only be destroyed if they are all together, so over time, they have been hidden carefully with magic.

[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.