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Auschwitz, Cummings, diamonds: catch up on our 5 best weekend reads
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Untold Night and Day — double vision in a twilight Seoul
Untold Night and Day — double vision in a twilight Seoul -
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A selection of the FT’s biggest stories and best reads every Friday
/Jan 17, 2020Become an FT subscriber to read: A selection of the FT’s biggest stories and best reads every Friday Make informed decisions with the FT Keep abreast of significant corporate, financial and political developments around the world. Stay informed and spot emerging risks and opportunities with... -
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Cho Nam-joo: the novelist inspiring east Asia’s #MeToo movement
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The Incendiaries by RO Kwon — fatal attraction
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Short review: The Good Son by You-jeong Jeong
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Best books of 2017: Fiction in translation
There are echoes of WG Sebald in this poignant meditation on loss by the South Korean author of the Man Booker International Prize-winning The Vegetarian. Reflecting on the death of her newborn baby sister, only a few hours after her birth, the unnamed narrator seeks solace from sorrow in the... -
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The White Book by Han Kang — shade of pale
In The White Book, the unrelinquishable nature of the past is again faced down through the lens of an early tragedy that has forever marked the narrator's family. This traumatic single event is expanded to question, in just under 130 pages, the nature of existence itself. The narrator, a writer... -
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South Korea to exert ‘soft power’ internationally through books