死と破壊、そして革命。 人々は今日をどのように記憶するのか。 「セウォル号沈没事故」「キャンドル革命」という韓国で起きた社会的激変を背景に、人が人として生きることの意味を問う最新作。 多くの人命を奪った「セウォル号沈没事故」、現職大統領を罷免に追い込んだ「キャンドル革命」という社会的激変を背景にした連作小説。 孤立し、閉塞感が強まる日常の中で、人はいかに連帯し、突破していくのか? 行く先に真の〈...

韓國文學的新面貌，「黃貞殷風」的奠基之作 如戀人般的愛情，卻不說一句愛…… 融洽描繪虛幻與現實的獨特愛情故事， 栩栩如生訴說暴力世界裡，衰微、孱弱的人生。 以對照方式，反思殘酷社會與善良人性的進退。 人可以是最孤獨的生物， 卻有一百種遠離寂寞的理由。 是的，這是一則瀰漫獨特氣味與語言魅力的愛情故事，有關男女主角於即將拆遷的電子商場的工作日常，兩人各自背負著不安的背景、記憶而活，...

Imagine Cormac McCarthy writing about the boring lives of clerks and youll anticipate something of the dystopic flavour of this gripping but socially bleak short story from Hwang. In a Korean world...

Tại một trung tâm thương mại xập xệ, nằm bên rìa một xã hội hiện đại phát triển thần tốc, những con người trong đó rỉ tai nhau giữa âm thanh ồn ào của những thiết bị điện tử, rằng đừng đi theo cái...

From one of South Korea's most acclaimed young authors comes the story of two sisters, Sora and Nana, whose childhood was marked by their father's death in a factory accident and their mother Aeja's...

"That's how it generally is with Aeja's stories. They're as potent as a putrid peach. Listening to her words your head starts to droop with their sticky juice trickling down your ears, until all you can do is succumb to the saccharine flow." From one of South Korea's most acclaimed young authors...

◆韓国の現代史を背景に癒えない痛みと沈黙の重みを伝える 静かな、しかし言い表せないほどに大きな悲しみと怒り。目を細めて過去と未来を眺めたときに、胸に満ちる昏さ。韓国社会で息をしている人々の痛切な思いが、この1冊の本に綴じられた二つの中編から届いてくる。彼女・彼らが抱える決して癒えない「疼痛」が、神経を伝って、ページを握る指から手、そして身体を痺れさせる。(...)

◆消えた町、戦争と暴力の記憶 女装ホームレスのアリシアが、再開発で消え去った町、コモリを言葉で蘇らせる。そこに立ち現れるのは、いないことにされてきた人々の世界だ。 子供時代、朝鮮戦争で北から逃れてきた父親は孤児になり、この町で下男として雇われると、見下されながらもなんとか金を掴（つか）もうとする。成人してようやく家を手に入れ、立ち退きのための莫大な補償金をせしめても、家族の心は通いはしない。

韩国当代文学中的父亲与母亲形象，常常具有特定的指涉，在很多时候，父亲象征着半岛的国族史，而母亲则象征着半岛的受难史。不过，进入21世纪后，在韩国政治渐趋稳定，经济持续快速发展，个人平均国民生产总值突破了两万美元的同时，年轻人逐渐产生出对个人的强烈渴望，以及与“国家民族”“父亲母亲”为代表的前现代共同体切割的欲望。

Tiểu thuyết “Một trăm cái bóng” của Hwang Jungeun mở ra một thế giới hiện đại, tàn nhẫn và khốc liệt, nơi thị dân lay lắt sống trước chiếc “bóng” gớm ghiếc dai dẳng đeo bám. Năm 2009, Toà nhà Yongsan tại Seoul (Hàn Quốc) bị phá bỏ với mục đích tái cấu trúc. Bố của nhà văn Hwang Jungeun là một trong...

Kim Young Ha, Han Kang, Shin Kyung Sook... không chỉ nức tiếng tại xứ sở kim chi mà còn khiến độc giả Việt Nam hâm mộ nồng nhiệt.

Something that has happened more and more frequently to me in recent years is an odd tendency to start a book, be moderately disappointed by the first chapter, set it aside for a few days (or weeks), return to it, and fall in deep. This doesn't happen with every book, of course, but it's...

Something that has happened more and more frequently to me in recent years is an odd tendency to start a book, be moderately disappointed by the first chapter, set it aside for a few days (or weeks), return to it, and fall in deep. This doesn't happen with every book, of course, but it's...

This is the 2nd book from an exciting new non-for-profit independent press, Titled Axis, founded by Deborah Smith, the MBI award winning translator of Han Kang's The Vegetarian, and the novel comes with a brief introduction from Han Kang herself. 

 

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My first foray into Korean literature, and a very positive one from tilted axis press (look them up). It is set in Seoul in a rundown electronics market which is scheduled for demolition...

 

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