Yun Ko Eun et al / 윤고은 / 2020 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century > SF > Fantasy

*** WINNER OF THE 2021 CWA CRIME IN TRANSLATION DAGGER *** **LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2022** *LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT PRIZE* Yona has been stuck behind a desk for years working as a programming coordinator for Jungle, a travel company specialising in package holidays to destinations ravaged by disaster. When a senior colleague touches her inappropriately she tries to complain, and in an attempt to bury her allegations, the company make her an attractive proposition: a free ticket for one of their most sought-after trips, to the desert island of Mui. She accepts the offer and travels to the remote island, where the major attraction is a supposedly-dramatic sinkhole. When the customers who've paid a premium for the trip begin to get frustrated, Yona realises that the company has dangerous plans to fabricate an environmental catastrophe to make the trip more interesting, but when she tries to raise the alarm, she discovers she has put her own life in danger. Source : https://lti.overdrive.com/media/93AFF59E-73C8-4F02-BE9B-ADDE4204ED44

Kim Hyesoon / 김혜순 / 2018 / -

The title section of Kim Hyesoon's powerful new book, Autobiography of Death, consists of forty-nine poems, each poem representing a single day during which the spirit roams after death before it enters the cycle of reincarnation. The poems not only give voice to those who met unjust deaths during Korea's violent contemporary history, but also unveil what Kim calls "the structure of death, that we remain living in." Autobiography of Death, Kim's most compelling work to date, at once reenacts trauma and narrates our historical death—how we have died and how we survive within this cyclical structure. In this sea of mirrors, the plural "you" speaks as a body of multitudes that has been beaten, bombed, and buried many times over by history. The volume concludes on the other side of the mirror with "Face of Rhythm," a poem about individual pain, illness, and meditation. Source : https://lti.overdrive.com/media/2ce5f529-c224-4c21-b026-51b68a7f49a9

Keum Suk Gendry-Kim / 김금숙 / 2020 / KDC구분 > Social science > Sociology and social problems

Appeared on best of the year lists from The New York Times, The Guardian, and more! Winner of The Cartoonist Studio Prize for Best Print Comic of the Year! Grass is a powerful antiwar graphic novel, telling the life story of a Korean girl named Okseon Lee who was forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese Imperial Army during the Second World War—a disputed chapter in twentieth-century Asian history. Beginning in Lee's childhood, Grass shows the lead-up to the war from a child's vulnerable perspective, detailing how one person experienced the Japanese occupation and the widespread suffering it entailed for ordinary Koreans. Keum Suk Gendry-Kim emphasizes Lee's strength in overcoming the many forms of adversity she experienced. Grass is painted in a black ink that flows with lavish details of the beautiful fields and farmland of Korea and uses heavy brushwork on the somber interiors of Lee's memories. The cartoonist Gendry-Kim's interviews with Lee become an integral part of Grass, forming the heart and architecture of this powerful nonfiction graphic novel and offering a holistic view of how Lee's wartime suffering changed her. Grass is a landmark graphic novel that makes personal the desperate cost of war and the importance of peace. Source : https://lti.overdrive.com/media/5820386

Yeong-shin Ma / 마영신 / 2021 / -

An outrageously funny book about middle-aged women that reexamines romance, lust, and gender norms Lee Soyeon, Myeong-ok, and Yeonjeong are all mothers in their mid-fifties. And they've had it. They can no longer bear the dead weight of their partners or the endless grind of menial jobs where their bosses control everything, down to how much water they can drink. Although Lee Soyeon divorced her husband years ago after his gambling drove their family into bankruptcy, she finds herself in another tired and dishonest decade-long relationship with Jongseok, a slimy waiter at a nightclub. Meanwhile, Myeong-ok is having an illicit affair with a younger man, and Yeonjeong, whose husband suffers from erectile dysfunction, has her eye on an acquaintance from the gym. Bored with conventional romantic dalliances, these women embrace outrageous sexual adventures and mishaps, ending up in nightclubs, motels, and even the occasional back-alley brawl. With this boisterous and darkly funny manhwa, Yeong-shin Ma defies the norms of the traditional Korean family narrative, offering instead the refreshingly honest and unfiltered story of a group of middle-aged moms who yearn for something more than what the mediocre men in their lives can provide. Despite their less-than-desirable jobs, salaries, husbands, and boyfriends, these women brazenly bulldoze their way through life with the sexual vulnerability and lust typically attributed to twenty-somethings. Source: https://lti.overdrive.com/media/6270134?cid=37224

Kim Choyeop et al / 김초엽 / 2022 / -

光速前進推薦語 金草葉透過纖細流暢的文字與獨特想像視野織就整片科幻星空，在層層迷霧中清澈凝視底下的人與人性，以女性的感知、小說家之眼觸碰世界各種複雜面向，溫柔有力地於韓國當代文壇搶下一席之地。 Source: https://lti.overdrive.com/media/9076574?cid=37224

Kim Hyesoon et al / 김혜순 / 2023 / -

An iconic figure in the emergence of feminist poetry in South Korea and now internationally renowned, Kim Hyesoon pushes the poetic envelope into the farthest reaches of the lyric universe. Source : https://lti.overdrive.com/media/9423216

Han Kang / 한강 / 2023 / -

Comme un long songe d'hiver, ce nouveau roman de Han Kang nous fait voyager entre la Corée du Sud contemporaine et sa douloureuse histoire. Un matin de décembre, Gyeongha reçoit un message de son amie Inseon. Celle-ci lui annonce qu'elle est hospitalisée à Séoul et lui demande de la rejoindre sans attendre. Les deux femmes ne se sont pas vues depuis plus d'un an, lorsqu'elles avaient passé quelques jours ensemble sur l'île de Jeju. C'est là que réside Inseon et que, l'avant-veille de ces retrouvailles, elle s'est sectionné deux doigts en coupant du bois. Une voisine et son fils l'ont trouvée évanouie chez elle, ils ont organisé son rapatriement sur le continent pour qu'elle puisse être opérée de toute urgence. source: https://lti.overdrive.com/media/10069907?cid=37224