Korean Literature

North Korea's deadliest weapon is sleeper agent Song Sun Young. Married with children and living the good life in New York City, she has waited seven years to activate the mission she was trained to do: infiltrate America's financial infrastructure. She prays the call from her handlers will never come, because she loves her husband and kids and affluent New York lifestyle. But the call does come. During volatile negotiations between the White House and Pyongyang, Song is hurled back into a reality she had hoped to leave behind forever.

누구도 상상하지 못했던. 말도 안 되는 일이 벌어졌다! "제 양아버지 센야가 사라졌습니다. 부디, 찾아주세요."

명탐정의 대명사 셜록 홈즈가 처음 등장하는 작품. 아프가니스탄에서 막 돌아온 예비역 군의관 존 H. 왓슨 박사는 요양을 위해 하숙집을 찾던 중 베이커 가 221B번지에서 셜록 홈즈라는 인물과 같이 하숙을 하게 된다.

주홍색 습작에 기록된 사건 발생 7년 후의 이야기로, 왓슨의 기록으로는 두번 째가 되는 작품. 홈즈가 해결한 사건들 중에서 가장 유명한 사건 중 하나로 꼽힌다. 홈즈는 바솔로뮤 숄토의 죽음에 관련된 미스터리와 도둑맞은 아그라의 보물을 추적한다.

From Sophie Kim comes the second book in the epic fantasy based on Korean mythology, an unflinching roller coaster ride of action, romance, and intricate fantasy lore.

Angelina Lee feels like she doesn’t belong. Newly divorced, and completely unmoored by the sudden and tragic death of her mother, she hopes studying Korean will reconnect her to her roots, but nothing about Seoul feels familiar. Further complicating matters is the resurgence of an alluring man from Angelina’s past, and fellow classmate Keisuke Ono, an irritatingly good looking Japanese American journalist who refuses to leave her alone. What she’ll barely admit, however, is the true reason behind her trip. She’s convinced the key to understanding her mother’s suicide lies in Korea.

제로 럭키 소녀와 운명을 바꾸는 소년의 판타지 성장 서사! 너와 함께라면 바꿀 수 있어, 내일의 운명을. "다른 사람의 불행한 미래를 볼 수 있다면?" [YA! 영어덜트장르픽션 시리즈] 『제로 럭키 소녀, 세상을 바꿔줘』가 출간되었다. 제8회 가도카와 츠바사문고 소설상 금상 수상작으로, 기발한 상상력으로 가득한 나나미 마치 작가의 판타지 소설이다. 다른 사람의 미래, 그중에서도 '불행한 미래'만을 볼 수 있다면 그것은 행운일까, 불운일까? 행운이 0이라는 뜻의 '제로 럭키' 소녀 '미우'는 다른 사람의 얼굴 보면 그 사람의 불행한 미래를 볼 수 있는 '미래 시력'의 능력을 가졌다.

Manila, Philippines, 2003. Dane Chandler is visiting Manila on a writing assignment. Jack Pierce is a tough-talking Korean War veteran. When Jack asks Dane to join him for cards at the pension's cafe, Dane instinctively agrees, sensing the man's "command" presence. What unfolds will change their lives forever. Tokyo, Japan, 1949. Jack Pierce joined the army for honor and adventure, finding himself garrisoned at Camp Drake, Tokyo. On a raucous night at Ginza's glitzy Club Florida, the young corporal meets the love of his life, Michiko Okura.

Winter Park and Bobby Bae are Korean American high school juniors whose families have been friends since the kids were making crayon art. They, however, are repulsed by each other. Winter is MIT-bound, comfortable keeping people at arm’s length. Bobby is as Type-A, anxious, and risk-averse as you can get. He’s also been recently dumped. That’s why, when Winter’s and Bobby’s parents insist that they go on a northeast college campus tour together, both teens find reasons to accept even though the idea of being stuck in a car together for 700 miles sounds unbearable.

『어린왕자』의 작가 생텍쥐페리의 자전적 소설인 『야간비행』은 작가의 항공 회사에서의 업무 경험을 토대로 한 행동주의 문학의 대표적인 작품이다. 문학적 가치와 사실적 가치를 보기 드물게 잘 결합시켰다는 이유로 앙드레 지드의 격찬을 받은 이 소설 속에는, 비행 중에 폭풍우를 만난 조종사가 자신의 임무에 충실하기 위해 최후의 순간까지 사투를 벌이는 모습이 생생하게 그려진다.

Kim Ronyoung (Gloria Hahn, 1926-1987) tells the story of Haesu and Chun, immigrants who fled Japanese-occupied Korea for Los Angeles in the decade prior to World War II, and their American-born children. First published in 1986, Clay Walls offers a portrait of what being Korean in California meant in the first half of the twentieth century and how these immigrants’ nationalist spirit helped them withstand racism and poverty.

Riley Jo is a teenager who knows what she wants. Born and raised in Bentonville, Arkansas, this Korean American girl has her sights set on being a musician. So when her parents are surprisingly cool about her attending the prestigious Los Angeles-based arts-focused boarding school her senior year of high school, she jumps at the chance. This is her moment to make her indie rock dreams a reality!

Seventeen-year-old Bucky Yi knows nothing about his birth country of South Korea or his bio-dad's disappearance; he can't even pronounce his Korean name correctly. Running through the woods of rural Washington State with a tire tied to his waist, his sights are set on one all-American goal: to become a college football player. So when a misadventure with his adoptive family leads the US government to deport him to South Korea, he's forced to navigate an entirely foreign version of his life.

Amelia Bae-Wood’s life is falling apart. Unemployed, newly single and completely broke—for reasons she hasn’t told anyone yet—she finds herself hitchhiking across California to deal with the fallout of her mother’s eviction from the family estate. Amelia needs somewhere to live and time to figure out what to do with the rest of her life, so moving with her mother and sister to Arcadia, the cancer retreat center where her sister volunteers, seems like as good an idea as any.

In 1948, Najin and Calvin Cho, with their young daughter Miran, travel from South Korea to the United States in search of new opportunities. Wary of the challenges they know will face them, Najin and Calvin make the difficult decision to leave their other daughter, Inja, behind with their extended family; soon, they hope, they will return to her. But then war breaks out in Korea, and there is no end in sight to the separation. Miran grows up in prosperous American suburbia as Inja grapples in her war-torn land with ties to a family she doesn't remember.

When his jet malfunctions, Captain Ward Millar makes a last-second decision to eject over enemy territory in North Korea before his plane explodes. His parachute barely opens before impact, saving his life, but the hard landing snaps both of his ankles. Unable to walk, Captain Millar is easily captured by North Korean and Chinese soldiers. His captors interrogate, threaten, and starve him in an attempt to extract strategic wartime information. He stalls the inevitable by feeding the enemy false information, but it’s only a matter of time before they discover his lies.

Moving beyond the quasi-fraternal bond of the unforgettable George and Lenny from Of Mice and Men, Hurt You explores the actual sibling bond of Georgia and Leonardo da Vinci Daewoo Kim, who has an unnamed neurological disability that resembles autism. The themes of race, disability, and class spin themselves out in a suburban high school where the Kim family has moved in order to access better services for Leonardo.

Gary Pak has emerged as one of the most important Asian Hawaiian writers of our time. In this new collection, Pak expertly crafts a memorable cast of Hawai'i's Korean Americans, Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, and Native Hawaiians, amplifying our cross-cultural understanding of Hawaiian life today.

Jae-Young has just left everything she’s ever known, not that it was much: her thankless job, her infested apartment, and her abusive boyfriend—who happens to be dead on the kitchen floor. Murder was never the way she envisioned leaving, but times were desperate. Now on a train to the bustling city of Seoul, Jae-Young is hoping to escape her transgressions and just become invisible—safe. On the train, she meets a chatty mother fleeing with her infant son from an unfaithful husband and hoping to find refuge with the in-laws she’s never met.

실종된 지 16년, 이제는 생사조차 불분명한 딸. 그렇게 희망을 잃어가던 아버지에게 걸려온 의문의 전화. 실종된 딸을 찾으라는 아내의 유언에 목숨을 건 남자 정상훈. 그러나 16년이 지나도록 딸의 행적은 발견되지 않는다. 모든 것을 포기할 무렵, 정상훈을 찾아오는 두 사람! 실종된 딸을 찾을 수 있다는 정체불명의 청년 고남준, 고남준을 믿어서는 안 된다는 부산경찰청 미제사건수사팀장 박진희. 모두가 포기한 내 딸을 찾기 위해서는 모두가 의심하는 사람을 믿을 수밖에 없다.