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English(English) ArticleThe Skinny's Books of 2023
The Skinny / December 04, 2023
Lee Woo-Cheol is a running prodigy, but in Japanese-occupied Korea the Second World War is fast approaching. In the present day, his Japanese-born granddaughter trains for a marathon in Korea. This stunning new translation of Yu Miri’s epic, semi-autobiographical novel, weaves together the past and present in a complex, beautiful and brutal family history.
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Dutch(Nederlands) ArticleHan Kang: ‘Ik heb er zeven jaar over gedaan om dit boek te schrijven. De nachtmerrie bleef maar terugkomen’
HUMO / December 03, 2023
In 2016 kreeg de Zuid-Koreaanse schrijfster Han Kang (52) de Man Booker International Prize voor ‘De vegetariër’. In die extreem brutale, absurde en toch heel ernstige roman stopt een vrouw radicaal met vlees eten, ze wil leven zonder nog ergens haar tanden in te zetten, zonder enige vorm van geweld eigenlijk, en wil ten slotte een plant worden. De bedeesde Kang, wier zachtaardigheid weldadig aanvoelt, schreef daarna ‘Mensenwerk’, over de massamoord in haar geboortestad waar ze nipt aan is ontsnapt, en nu is er ‘Ik zeg geen vaarwel’, weer over een bloedbad, maar dat Han toch een boek over diepe liefde noemt: ‘Omdat er liefde is, is er pijn.’
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Chinese(汉语) Book Review生命本身即有奇點——讀《如果我們無法以光速前進》
VOCUS / December 01, 2023
倘若姜峯楠（Ted Chiang）的作品可以被形容為冷冽熠熠，劉宇昆（Ken Liu）小說宛若散發青銅般神祕氣息，那麼金草葉《如果我們無法以光速前進》則是進入未來世界與外太空科技時代更必備的「解憂雜貨店」，負責解開託付背後的謎底。閱讀七篇科幻小說帶來的情感餽贈，源自每篇角色從蒙昧不解至觸及真相的歷程。真相揭露，其對大時代而言算不上什麼祕密，然對角色來說卻至為關鍵，發現與看見往往帶來顛覆性的感受，猶如科技奇點（Technological Singularity）意味文明被徹底顛覆的事件點後，未來變得全然無法預測。金草葉帶來的故事，多半洋溢這樣的特質。
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Portuguese(Português) ArticleTransgressão e Transmutação em “Terráqueos”, da Sayaka Murata, e “A vegetariana”, da Han Kang
NotaTerapia / November 27, 2023
Ao começar um novo livro é comum acionarmos nossa biblioteca interna, aquela formada por todas as leituras que vieram antes, e assim, traçarmos conexões com todos os textos que nos compõe. Quando li Terráqueos, da Sayaka Murata, não foi diferente e acabei estabelecendo elos com A Vegetariana, da Han Kang, pois ambas causam um certo estranhamento com pitadas de choque e até horror. Há também a violência de gênero como catalisador para uma busca pela desumanização, no sentido de transgredir o humano que tanto violentou as personagens de ambos os livros ao longo de suas vidas.
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English(English) Book Review‘Welcome to Hyunam-Dong Bookshop’: Books and other literary reassurances in uncertain times
Scroll.in / November 26, 2023
I finished Welcome to Hyunam-Dong Bookshop the day I visited The Bookshop Inc at Lodhi Road in Delhi. Before my visit, I had been wondering why so many writers like to situate their books inside bookshops. From Calvino to Yagisawa, books where a bookshop plays an important role could be a genre unto itself.
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Italian(Italiano) ArticleEcco il K-fantasy di Lee Young-do: Tolkien versione coreana
la Repubblica / November 24, 2023
Si definisce umilmente un “dattilografo” non uno scrittore. Eppure è l’autore fantasy di maggior successo in Corea del Sud, dove ha venduto più di cinque milioni di libri. Questo pioniere della serializzazione online ha firmato serie di culto che approdano in Italia con il primo di quattro volumi: Il cuore dei naga — L’uccello che beve lacrime 1 (Feltrinelli).
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Japanese(日本語) Article弱者に心寄せ、紡いだ世界 韓国の詩人キム・ソヨンさん 詩集刊行 22日来熊
熊本日日新聞 / November 21, 2023
韓国文学を紹介するK─BOOKフェスティバルの一環で来熊する韓国の詩人キム・ソヨンさんの詩集「数学者の朝」が刊行された。自身の深いところまで潜り、見つめ、紡ぎ出した真摯［しんし］な言葉が並ぶ。22日に水俣市の古本屋「カライモブックス」, ...
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English(English) ArticleWhy Chinese readers are falling in love with Korean fiction – books adapted for K-dramas and movies, sci-fi, women’s literature, zombie thrillers
South China Morning Post / November 19, 2023
To gauge the popularity of contemporary Korean literature in China today, one need not look past Kim Cho-yeop’s short-story collection If We Cannot Move at the Speed of Light (2019). Published in Chinese in 2022, this year it won the Korean science fiction writer both the Chinese Nebula Award for Best Translated Work and the Galaxy Award for Most Popular Foreign Writer, an unprecedented achievement.
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French(Français) Book Review«Impossibles adieux»: L’esprit des lieux de Han Kang
Le Devoir / November 18, 2023
Hantée depuis des mois par des cauchemars récurrents — images de marées ou d’inondations, arbres calcinés servant de pierres tombales —, balançant entre la réalité et la fiction, se sentant frôlée par la mort, une écrivaine recluse dans son appartement de Séoul peaufine sa « lettre d’adieu au monde ». Avant, peut-être, c’est ce qu’on imagine, de mettre fin à ses jours.
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English(English) Book ReviewHwang Bo-reum’s Welcome To The Hyunam-dong Bookshop explores books and burnout
THE STRAITSTIMES / November 12, 2023
Book lovers who read this novel will come out of it fantasising about their ideal bookstore. They might even walk away with a few nifty ideas about how to run one. In Welcome To The Hyunam-dong Bookshop, Yeongju – who once threw herself into reading to mend a broken childhood friendship – opens a bookstore in a quiet neighbourhood to escape from a life that was “siphoning her soul away”.