Set during the dramatic final years of the Korean Empire, the new novel from Man Asian Literary Prize winner Kyung-Sook Shin features a mysterious dancer caught up in the dizzying sweep of history. Based on a remarkable true story, the New York Times bestselling author of Please Look After Mom...

Homesick and alone, a teen-aged girl has just arrived in Seoul to work in a factory. Her family, still in the countryside, is too impoverished to keep sending her to school, so she works long, sun-less days on a stereo-assembly line, struggling through night school every evening in order to achieve...

Park So-nyo, una humilde campesina, ha sido durante toda la vida una abnegada madre de familia, una mujer que siempre lo ha sacrificado todo para dar una educación a sus hijos. Ahora, tras haberse perdido en la estación central de Seúl cuando iba a visitar a sus hijos a la ciudad, su búsqueda...

En su mayor parte, los últimos cien años de la literatura coreana han transcurrido entre el dolor y la violencia. Si bien la península se deshizo desus últimos vestigios feudales y accedió a la modernidad a partir de lacaída de la dinastía Choson (1392-1910), en las décadas siguientes...

Set in 1980s South Korea amid the tremors of political revolution, I'll Be Right There follows Jung Yoon, a highly literate, twenty-something woman, as she recounts her tragic personal history as well as those of her three intimate college friends. When Yoon receives a distressing phone call from...

A million-plus-copy best seller in Korea—a magnificent English-language debut poised to become an international sensation—this is the stunning, deeply moving story of a family's search for their mother, who goes missing one afternoon amid the crowds of the Seoul Station subway.Told through the...

A million-plus-copy best seller in Korea--a magnificent English-language debut poised to become an international sensation--this is the stunning, deeply moving story of a family's search for their mother, who goes missing one afternoon amid the crowds of the Seoul Station subway.Told through the...

Över en och en halv miljon sålda exemplar i Sydkorea. Internationellt genombrott för en av Koreas mest framgångrika författare. Utgiven i 23 länder. En enastående och rörande roman om en familjs...

Set during the dramatic final years of the Korean Empire, the new novel from Man Asian Literary Prize winner Kyung-Sook Shin features a mysterious dancer caught up in the dizzying sweep of history...

Det var kaldt og fullt av snø ute den morgenen telefonen ringte. Men så fort hun hørte stemmen i den andre enden, var ChongYou tilbake i ungdommen igjen. Myong-so hadde vært kjæresten hennes da, på...

Med over en million solgte eksemplarer på et drøyt år siden utgivelsen er Ta vare på mamma den mestselgende romanen i Korea noensinne. Nå er den også i ferd med å bli en internasjonal bestselger...

Eräänä aamuna Jung Yoonin puhelin soi. Langan päässä on hänen nuoruudenrakastettunsa, jonka kanssa hän ei ole ollut yhteyksissä kahdeksaan vuoteen. Heidän entinen kirjallisuuden professorinsa tekee...

Korea has a rich and fast-growing library of modern literature. The list of writers of novels, short stories, and other works is long. Korean writers have taken a significant place in world literature. Their translators are also making names for themselves. These Korean writers, some contemporary...

La letteratura coreana si presenta al mondo occidentale Essendo nel pieno della globalizzazione che coinvolge i mercati, le economie e i commerci degli Stati, che vengono definiti interscambi commerciali, per cui le frontiere ormai divengono sempre più un ricordo dei secoli passati, anche la...

An Introduction of Kyung Sook Shin's <Ther Court Dancer 리진>

Kyung-Sok Shin's <The Court Dancer 리진>, Hye-young Pyun's <City of Ash and Red 재와빨강>,selected NPR's Best Books of 2018 : A Novel

South Korean novelist Shin Kyung-Sook's bestseller novel is set to feature as a TV series in the States. On October 30, KL Management announced that Blue Jar Pictures, a US production company has signed a deal to make the South Korean bestselling novel into a TV series. Novelist Shin Kyung-sook...

Hur väl känner vi våra föräldrar? Vet vi vilka personer de är egentligen, vilka de är förutom ens föräldrar? Känner vi till deras bakgrund, vad de ville bli, vad de blev och varför de blev dem som de blev? Känner vi till deras drömmar och förhoppningar? Och de som svarar ja, är ni verkligen...

The setting of the story is in Korea,the countryside where an old couple live and Seoul where their children live.Story starts with their mom missing because she accidentally parted from her husband on the trip they took to Seoul to celebrate their birthdays with their children.As the story...

I chose to read Kyung-Sook Shin's novel, Please Look After Mother, for the South Korea stop on my Around the World in 80 Books challenge. Please Look After Mother has sold almost 1.5 million copies in South Korea alone since its publication in 2009; the author is one of the country's most...

This novel about a Korean family cut and passed through me, stabbing me, penetrating my soul.

Yeah, that's the adjective I want to use, piercing. That word describes my thoughts about PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOM by Kyung-sook Shin.

The novel's story, which recounts interactions and...

This book caused me some heartache. It deals with many social themes, including those relating to family, duty, honour and integrity, and I found some of the narrative elements quite confrontational.

 

 

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