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Korean fiction: a bold new wave
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The South Korean writer Han Kang is a synecdoche of contemporary Korean fiction in translation today. The 2016 Man Booker International Prize can be singled out as an example of a prize that did for a country’s literary market what prizes manifestly do for an individual author: Provide instant international visibility.
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The White BookHan Kang
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The Court DancerKyung-sook Shin
/2018Set 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... -
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/2018These 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,... -
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MenschenwerkHan Kang
/2017»Han Kang zu lesen ist wie in einen Strudel aus Brutalität und Zärtlichkeit geworfen zu werden, aus dem man durchgeschüttelt, perplex und tief bewegt wieder auftaucht.« Doris Dörrie Ein Junge ist gestorben, und die Hinterbliebenen müssen weiterleben. Doch was ist ihnen ihr Leben noch wert? Han Kang... -
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Human Acts [Audio Book]Han Kang
/2017July 4, 2016 After winning the Man Booker International Prize for The Vegetarian , Han has written a harrowing second novel that traces the long-term reverberations from South Korea’s 1980 Gwangju Uprising, in which government troops killed anywhere between 200 and 2,000 civilians in the chaos... -
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Human ActsHan Kang
/2016From the internationally bestselling author of THE VEGETARIAN, a "rare and astonishing" (The Observer) portrait of political unrest and the universal struggle for justice In the midst of a violent student uprising in South Korea, a young boy named Dong-ho is shockingly killed. The story of this... -
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/2016Near the beginning of A Greater Music, the narrator, a young Korean writer, falls into an icy river in the Berlin suburbs, where she's been housesitting for her on-off boyfriend Joachim. This sets into motion a series of memories about life in Berlin, about literature, language, music, and the... -
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The Girl Who Wrote LonelinessKyung-sook Shin
/2015Homesick 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... -
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The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly [Audio Book]Sun-mi Hwang
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The Hen Who Dreamed she Could FlySun-mi Hwang
/2014This is the story of a hen named Sprout. No longer content to lay eggs on command only to have them carted off to the market, she glimpses her future every morning through the barn doors, where the other animals roam free, and comes up with a plan to escape into the wild—and to hatch an egg of her... -
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I'll Be Right ThereKyung-sook Shin
/2014Set 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... -
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Please Look After Mom [Audio book]Kyung-sook Shin
/2011A 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... -
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Please Look After MomKyung-sook Shin
/2011A 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...
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Çocuk Geliyor
2016 Uluslararası Man Booker Ödüllü Vejetaryen'in yazarı Han Kang'dan Çocuk Geliyor. 18 Mayıs 1980 Gwangju Kore Bak Coınğ Hi'ye 1979 yılında gerçekleştirilen suikastın ardından yeni iktidar yönetime... -
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Den förra presidenten i Sydkorea, Park Guen-hye, hade en svart lista med över 9000 kulturarbetare som hon såg som meningsmotståndare. Sedan hon avsattes 2017 råder ett öppnare offentligt samtal i landet. – Författare i Sydkorea söker en ny riktning, säger Sverigeaktuella Han Kang. -
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