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National Book Awards Names 2020 Nominees
/September 18, 2020Two acclaimed debut novels and a story collection whose author died last month are among the 10 fiction contenders for this year’s National Book Award. -
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A Novel From North Korea Offers Glimpses of the Everyday
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New & Noteworthy, From a Korean Thriller to John Maynard Keynes
THE LAW OF LINES, by Hye-young Pyun. Translated by Sora Kim-Russell. (Arcade, $24.99.) Pyun’s simmering thriller, translated from the Korean, follows two young women grieving the loss of heavily indebted relatives: Se-oh’s father in a gas explosion, Ki-jeong’s half sister in a drowning. Both women... -
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In This Korean Best Seller, a Young Mother Is Driven to Psychosis
I hated reading “Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982,” the debut novel by Cho Nam-Joo, which is the opposite of saying that I hated the book itself. The story of a young stay-at-home mother driven to a psychotic break, it laid bare my own Korean childhood — and, let’s face it, my Western adulthood too — forcing... -
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The Heroine of This Korean Best Seller Is Extremely Ordinary. That’s the Point.
Kim Jiyoung, the exceptionally average protagonist of Cho Nam-Joo’s novel, is 33, living on the outskirts of Seoul with her husband and infant daughter. She is exhausted by the monotony of cooking, cleaning and child-rearing, and vaguely resentful that she gave up her job at a marketing agency. -
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An Illustrated Guide to Spring’s Essential Reads
/March 19, 2020When she suddenly starts speaking like other women — her mother, an old friend — Kim Jiyoung, a typical 33-year-old woman living in Seoul, South Korea, is sent to therapy by her husband. (..) -
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Mom, Maman, Mamá: 13 Stories of Motherhood From Around the World
For Mother’s Day, consider these globe-spanning stories of motherhood, from the United States to Haiti, Canada to China, and more. If you’ve lost a mother PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOM by Kyung-sook Shin It’s not immediately clear what happened to the mother in this novel, translated from the original... -
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9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Much of Yoon’s arresting debut memorializes the Korean “comfort women” who were forced into prostitution during World War II; it draws considerable power from the testimonies of actual survivors. “The book fixes attention on the conditions these women faced — injected with the arsenic compound... -
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South Korean Novelist Apologizes in Wake of Plagiarism Accusation
Introductions of Novelist Kyung-sook Shin and her Book : <Please Look After Mom 엄마를 부탁해>