The Leipzig Book Fair (German: Leipziger Buchmesse) is the second largest book fair in Germany after the Frankfurt Book Fair. The fair takes place annually over four days at the Leipzig Trade Fairground in the northern part of Leipzig, Saxony. It is the first large trade meeting of the year and as such it plays an important role in the market and is often where new publications are first presented.
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Die Vegetarierin: RomanHan Kang
/2016»Die Vegetarierin ist ein Meisterwerk.« Julia Encke, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung Ein seltsam verstörendes, hypnotisierendes Buch über eine Frau, die laut ihrem Ehemann an Durchschnittlichkeit kaum zu übertreffen ist – bis sie eines Tages beschließt, kein Fleisch mehr zu essen. »Bevor... -
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[Audio Book] The White BookHan Kang
/2019Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize From Booker Prize-winner and literary phenomenon Han Kang, a lyrical and disquieting exploration of personal grief, written through the prism of the color white While on a writer's residency, a nameless narrator wanders the twin white worlds... -
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Prințesa BariHwang Sok-yong
/2016Legenda coreeană a prințesei Bari istorisește cum cea de-a șaptea fiică a unui rege este abandonată de părinți, dornici să aibă și un fiu. Când însă regele și regina se îmbolnăvesc, ghicitorii le spun ca există o singură cale de salvare: fiica lor părăsită trebuie să caute apa vieții la marginea... -
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Die LotosblüteHwang Sok-yong
/2019Denkt man an ein märchenhaftes Schicksal, so kommt man nicht sofort auf Kurtisanen und Frauenhandel, doch es ist tatsächlich ein alter koreanischer Mythos, der diesem Meisterwerk zugrunde liegt. Darin entführt Hwang Sok-Yong den Leser in das Asien des 19. Jahrhunderts, in eine Welt des Opiumhandels... -
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[Audio Book] Deine kalten HändeHan Kang
/2019"Ein großer Roman über die Einsamkeit der menschlichen Existenz. Eines Tages verschwindet der Bildhauer Jang Unhyong beinahe spurlos. Er hinterlässt seine faszinierenden Gipsabdrücke von Händen und Körpern - und ein bewegendes Tagebuch, das seine lebenslange Suche nach Nähe und Wahrhaftigkeit in... -
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Deine kalten HändeHan Kang
/2019Ein großer Roman über die Einsamkeit der menschlichen Existenz. Eines Tages verschwindet der Bildhauer Jang Unhyong beinahe spurlos. Er hinterlässt seine faszinierenden Gipsabdrücke von Händen und Körpern – und ein bewegendes Tagebuch, das seine lebenslange Suche nach Nähe und Wahrhaftigkeit in... -
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[Audio Book] Die VegetarierinHan Kang
/2016"Bevor meine Frau zur Vegetarierin wurde, hielt ich sie für nichts Besonderes. Bei unserer ersten Begegnung fand ich sie nicht einmal attraktiv. Mittelgroß, ein Topfschnitt, irgendwo zwischen kurz und lang, gelbliche unreine Haut, Schlupflider und dominante Wangenknochen. So fühlte ich mich weder... -
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Diary of a Murderer And Other StoriesKim Young-Ha
/2020Kim Byeongsu is losing his mind. Quite literally. He keeps forgetting the little things in life, like basic words, whether or not he has a dog, the last time he killed someone... In his prime, Byeongsu was one of the best murderers around, spending years obsessively trying to perfect his technique... -
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Tenho o Direito de Me DestruirKim Young-Ha
/2014Num tempo em que a eutanásia e a morte assistida estão na ordem do dia, o narrador anónimo deste romance ajuda pessoas a morrer. Mas não porque se encontrem doentes, simplesmente porque se sentem fartas da vida. Bastam-lhe dois ou três clientes por ano para sobreviver; mas nem sempre se torna fácil... -
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I Hear Your VoiceYOUNG-HA KIM
/2017In South Korea, underground motorcycle gangs attract society's castoffs. They form groups of hundreds and speed wildly through cities at night. For Jae and Dongyu, two orphans, their motorcycles are a way of survival. Jae is born in a bathroom stall at the Seoul Express Bus Terminal. And Dongyu is... -
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Znajomy światHwang Sok-yong
/2018„To bez wątpienia najsilniejszy głos współczesnej Azji". Kenzaburō Ōe, laureat Literackiej Nagrody Nobla„Potężna refleksja nad kapitalizmem w wykonaniu jednego z najznakomitszych koreańskich pisarzy. Hwang wzywa nas do spojrzenia w przeszłość i namysłu nad tym, jakim kosztem dokonała się ewolucja... -
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Quién sabe si mañana seguiremos aquíKim Young-Ha
/2019Unji, su hija, lleva días sin pasar por casa y los números del teléfono se desdibujan cuando intenta llamarla. ¿Cómo funcionaba esto exactamente? ¿Cuál era el número? De hecho... ¿a quién quería llamar? Para este asesino en serie retirado, la vejez no es el camino tranquilo que esperaba. Los... -
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Diary of a Murderer And Other StoriesYOUNG-HA KIM
/2019"It's been twenty-five years since I last murdered someone, or has it been twenty-six? Diary of a Murderer captivates and provokes in equal measure, exploring what it means to be on the edge—between life and death, good and evil. In the titular novella, a former serial killer suffering from memory... -
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The White BookHan Kang
/2019Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize From Booker Prize-winner and literary phenomenon Han Kang, a lyrical and disquieting exploration of personal grief, written through the prism of the color white While on a writer's residency, a nameless narrator wanders the twin white worlds... -
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At DuskHwang Sok-yong
/2018In the evening of his life, a wealthy man begins to wonder if he might have missed the point. Park Minwoo is a success story. Born into poverty in a miserable neighbourhood of Seoul, he has ridden the wave of development in his country. Now the director of a large architectural firm, his hard work... -
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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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[Audio Book] Human Acts 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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Meeting with My BrotherYi Mun-Yol
/2017Yi Mun-yol's Meeting with My Brother is a sobering yet hopeful depiction of the volatile relationship between the divided Koreas. Yi, the narrator, is a South Korean university professor searching for his father, who defected to the North at the outbreak of war. Instead he finds his half-brother,... -
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Familiar ThingsHwang Sok-yong
/2017Seoul. On the outskirts of South Korea's glittering metropolis is a place few people know about: a vast landfill site called Flower Island. Home to those driven from the city by poverty, is it here that 14-year-old Bugeye and his mother arrive, following his father's internment in a government 're-... -
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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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Flowers of a MomentKO UN
Flowers of a Moment is a treasure trove of more than 180 brief poems by a major world poet at the apex of his career. A four-time Nobel Prize nominee,Ko Un grew up in Korea during the Japanese occupation. During the Korean War, he was conscripted by the People's Army. In 1952, he became a Buddhist... -
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The Shadow of ArmsHwang Suk-Young
/2014A novel of the black markets of the South Vietnamese city of Da Nang during the Vietnam War, based on the author's experiences as a self-described South Korean mercenary on the side of the South Vietnamese, this is a Vietnam War novel like no other, truly one that sees the war from all sides... -
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Black FlowerYOUNG-HA KIM
/2012"'Can a nation disappear forever?' . . . [In] a tale of collective loss, political revolution and the individual quest for self-determination . . . Kim brings us the souls caught up on the ground of this larger drama." — Minneapolis Star Tribune In 1904, facing war and the loss of their nation,... -
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I Have the Right to Destroy MyselfYOUNG-HA KIM
/2011In the fast-paced, high-urban landscape of Seoul, C and K are brothers who have fallen in love with the same woman—Se-yeon—who tears at both of them as they all try desperately to find real connection in an atomized world. A spectral, nameless narrator haunts the edges of their lives as he tells of... -
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Your Republic Is Calling YouYOUNG-HA KIM
/2011A foreign film importer, Gi-yeong is a family man with a wife and daughter. An aficionado of Heineken, soccer, and sushi, he is also a North Korean spy who has been living among his enemies for twenty-one years. ... Source: http://lti.lib.overdrive.com/09D479FD-5042-4E54-90B8-3F6FB77807A0/10/50/... -
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Princess Bari [Kindle Edition]Hwang Sok-yong
/2015In a drab North Korean city, a seventh daughter is born to a couple longing for a son. Abandoned hours after her birth, she is eventually rescued by her grandmother. The old woman names the child Bari, after a legend telling of a forsaken princess who undertakes a quest for an elixir that will... -
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En busca del elefante [Kindle Edition]Jo Kyung-ran
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... -
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El huésped [Kindle Edition]Hwang Sok-yong
Fue publicado en Corea en el 2001, siendo un bestseller en su país de origen. En El huésped —como llaman a la viruela en la tradición coreana—, el autor compara dos ideologías occidentales: catolicismo y marxismo, con una plaga mortal, causa de muchos conflictos. Por primera vez en muchos años, el... -
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Cuentos coreanos del siglo XX [Kindle Edition]Hyeon Jin-Geon
/2004En 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... -
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Murmullos de gloria [Googleplay E-Book]Chong Hyon-jong
/2012Chong Hyon-jong (Seúl, 1939) después de sus estudios universitarios de filosofía comenzó a escribir para un periódico nacional, y desde entonces ha dedicado su vida a la investigación y la enseñanza de la poesía moderna de Corea. En 1966, junto a otros poetas y críticos, publicó la revista... -
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Maninbo: Peace & WarKO UN
Ko Un has long been a living legend in Korea, both as a poet and as a person. Allen Ginsberg once wrote, 'Ko Un is a magnificent poet, combination of Buddhist cognoscente, passionate political libertarian, and naturalist historian.' Maninbo (Ten Thousand Lives) is the title of a remarkable... -
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First Person SorrowfulKO UN
/2012Ko Un has long been a living legend in Korea, both as a poet and as a person. Allen Ginsberg once wrote, 'Ko Un is a magnificent poet, combination of Buddhist cognoscente, passionate political libertarian, and naturalist historian.' When a writer has published as much as Ko Un has in the course of... -
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The Old GardenHWANG SOK-YOUNG
/2011Political prisoner Hyun Woo is freed after eighteen years to find no trace of the world he knew. The friends with whom he shared utopianist dreams are gone. His Seoul is unrecognizably transformed and aggressively modernized. Yoon Hee, the woman he loved, died three years ago. A broken man, he... -
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TongueKyung-Ran Jo
/2011Emotionally 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... -
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The guestHwang Sok-yong
/2011Based on actual events, The Guest is a profound portrait of a divided people haunted by a painful past, and a generation's search for reconciliation. During the Korean War, Hwanghae Province in North Korea was the setting of a gruesome fifty-two day massacre. In an act of collective amnesia the...
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Prințesa Bari
Legenda coreeana a printesei Bari istoriseste cum cea de-a saptea fiica a unui rege este abandonata de parinti, dornici sa aiba si un fiu. Cind insa regele si regina se imbolnavesc, ghicitorii le... -
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Η χορτοφάγος
Η ΓιόνγκΧιε και ο σύζυγός της είναι δύο άνθρωποι του μέσου όρου. Εκείνος πηγαινοέρχεται δουλοπρεπώς στο γραφείο του, δεν διακατέχεται από καμία φιλοδοξία. Εκείνη δεν τη χαρακτηρίζει κανένα πάθος,... -
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Привычный мир
Аннотация к книге "Привычный мир" В романе "Привычный мир" описывается жизнь обитателей мусорной свалки. Гигантский мусорный полигон в окрестностях мегаполиса становится пристанищем для потерявшего... -
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The Shadow of Arms
A novel of the black markets of the South Vietnamese city of Da Nang during the Vietnam War, based on the author’s experiences as a self-described South Korean mercenary on the side of the South... -
