Korean Short

멜랑콜리를 테마로 한 젊은 작가들의 신작 소설집 『보라색 사과의 마음』이 출간됐다. 7만 독자의 마음을 움직인 페미니즘 테마소설집 『현남 오빠에게』 이후, 현재 우리 사회를 관통하는 동시에 지금을 살아가는 현대인이라면 누구나 공감할 만한 주요 테마를 내세운 다산책방의 연속 기획 테마소설집이다. 『보라색 사과의 마음』에는 최민우, 조수경, 임현, 김남숙, 남궁지혜, 이현석 등 최근 한국문단이 주목하는 여섯 명의 신진 작가들의 신작이 실렸다.

Much like Lee Chang-dong’s internationally renowned films (Burning, Secret Sunshine, and Poetry), these brilliant, unsettling tales, originally published in Korea in the 1980s and now translated into English for the first time, investigate themes of injustice, betrayal, and terror—on both an intimate and national scale. Lee writes deeply and hauntingly about conflicts between family, the powerful and the vulnerable, conformists and rebels.

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.

"The Little Match Girl" is a short story by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. It was first published in 1845. We use the public domain English text from A Christmas Greeting: A Series of Stories by H. C. Andersen in Project Gutenberg.