Somewhere on the periphery of Seoul, between the modern metropolis and the traditional farming communities, lies a "distant and beautiful place," the neighborhood of Wonmi-dong. Here, a young couple from the city struggles to make a home for themselves; a hapless "salary man" is forced into door-to...

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...

These nine stories span half a century of contemporary writing in Korea (1970s–2010s), bringing together some of the most famous twentieth-century women writers with a new generation of young, bold voices. Their work explores a world not often seen in the West, taking us into the homes, families,...

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...

Esta es una colección de siete cuentos de la autora JO Kyung-ran, conocida por su fino y delicado estilo literario. Para la autora, una de las tareas de los escritores es percibir lo invisible, escuchar su espíritu que habla en voz baja y ponerlo en palabras. Por eso se interesa en los seres...

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...

Emotionally raw and emphatically sensual, Tongue is the story of the demise of an obsessive romance, and a woman's culinary journey toward self-restoration and revenge. When her boyfriend of seven years leaves her for another woman, the celebrated young chef Jung Ji-won shuts down the cooking...

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...

朴正煕政権時代の１９６９年、地方の小さな町で祖母と年頃の叔母、間借人らと暮らす１２歳の少女ジニは、不幸な生いたちから幼くして人生を悟るようになってしまう。大人の心を見抜く彼女は、「見る私」と「見せる私」に自分を分離し演じ分け、身近な人たちの人生の“秘密”をひとり冷めた目で観察していく。一体ジニは、大人たちのどんな“生”を見たのか？なぜ彼女は１２歳で成長することを止めたのか？...

《外面是夏天》是金爱烂的第四部短篇小说集，共收入七篇作品。故事中的主人公大多在经历“失去”，失去孩子，失去父亲，失去能用母语与之交流的人……金爱烂似乎有意将这种种失去之痛揉碎，均匀地分布在字里行间，让痛感不时击中读者的心。在本书中，作者依旧保持着都市生活观察员和记录员的角色，叙述平实，贴近生活。 《外面是夏天》是第四十八届东仁文学奖获奖作品，其中《沉默的未来》《您想去哪里》...

Nauja Man Asian literatūros premija apdovanoto romano „Prašau, pasirūpink mama" autorės knyga! Naujasis Man Asian literatūros premijos laimėtojos Shin Kyung-sook romanas nukelia į XIX amžiaus...

時序都入秋了， 但秋天似乎永遠不會來。 韓國李箱文學獎得主最新作品 總要盡最大的力量像盪鞦韆一樣， 幫助彼此飛向太陽升起的地方吧？ 最不幸的現實與最幸運的莫可奈何。 一本屬於我們的小說，八段「非幸運」的悲劇盛宴 遙遠的優雅與美德與整個世代的深淵生活 無數你我皆曾有過的踟躇、退讓與孤獨 書名原文「비행운」在韓文中有兩種意思，一是飛機掠過後引擎排出濃縮水蒸氣所形成的人為捲雲，俗稱「飛機雲」；...

XIX amžiaus pabaigos Korėja – dar kitaip tuomet vadinta Čosono karalyste. Intrigų ir įtakų paieškos metas, kai į šalį skverbiasi vis daugiau Vakarų pasaulio gyvenimo detalių. Į šalį, kuri yra uždara, tačiau intriguojanti savo geografine vieta. Į griežtas kasdienybės tradicijas turinčią šalį,...

今年、海外の翻訳文学で売れに売れたものといったら、韓国文学でしょう。2018年後半に刊行されたチョ・ナムジュの『82年生まれ、キム・ジヨン』（斎藤真理子／訳）が、最近の翻訳文学では「爆発的」といっていい15万部超のヒット。初版は慎ましく4千部、しかし刷りに刷りを重ね、今年、渋谷のスクランブル交差点に建つビルに、本書の電光掲示広告が流れるのを見たときには、わたしは深い深い感慨に打たれました。(...)

"Quando penso a tutti i libri che mi restano da leggere, ho la certezza di essere ancora felice": così lo scrittore francese Jules Renard, consapevole del fatto che la vasta e molteplice foresta di libri ancora da esplorare rappresenta uno spazio di libertà e di felicità sempre a portata di mano e...

When French delegate Victor Collin de Plancy first meets Korean court dancer Yi Jin in the last years of the Joseon Dynasty, he is spellbound by her grace and beauty. When he greets her with “Bonjour,” he’s shocked when she responds in his language. Instinctively, he snaps a photo with a hidden...

近日，“韩国80后天才女作家”金爱烂的第四部短篇小说集《外面是夏天》中文版出版。诺贝尔文学奖得主勒克莱齐奥认为：“金爱烂是最有可能获得诺贝尔文学奖的韩国女作家。”而中国知名作家蒋方舟也对金爱烂的创作有着自己的解读。 遇见金爱烂 “韩国最可能得诺奖的作家”

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I'd read a review of Please Look After Mom in the New York Times. I was very excited to read and review the book when offered the chance through the Amazon Vine program. Written by one of South Korea's most widely read and highly respected authors, this is her first book translated into English...

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...

Kyung-sook Shin is a best selling Korean author who is finally in translation here in the States. And, oh my, how glad I am. Her writing is mesmerizing, deep and beautiful. She pushes the reader into the story by literally using referring to "you" as the narrating 
character. "You" are...