Kim Miwol et al / 김미월 et al / 2016 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Complete Collection > Library > Complete Collection & Library (more than 2 writers)

À la découverte des traditions et de la culture de la Corée du Sud. Pour ce pays du Sud, douzième puissance économique du monde, on a parlé de « miracle ». L'industrialisation à marche forcée et le développement économique spectaculaire ont fait naître ici, en très peu de temps, des conglomérats tentaculaires aux enjeux planétaires. Coincé entre deux géants, il affirme sa personnalité grâce à sa langue originale, non tonale à la différence du chinois, transcrite par un alphabet original d'une étonnante simplicité, le hangeul, créé de toutes pièces par les linguistes du roi Séjong au xve siècle, et qui fait la fierté de ses habitants. C'est la littérature de la Corée du Sud (pays ouvert), et non celle de la Corée du Nord (pays fermé), qui est évoquée dans cette nouvelle livraison de la collection « Miniatures ». Pris entre une culture japonaise très marquée par l'Occident depuis l'après Seconde Guerre mondiale et une culture chinoise demeurée jusqu'à il y a peu sous un fort contrôle idéologique, ce « dragon asiatique », l'un des quatre avec Hong Kong, Singapour et Taiwan, a tracé sa voie sur le chemin des nations littérairement très développées, avec une ardeur qui force l'admiration. Laissez-vous emporter dans un formidable voyage grâce aux nouvelles coréennes de la collection Miniatures ! À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS Créées en 1999, les éditions Magellan & Cie souhaitent donner la parole aux écrivains-voyageurs de toutes les époques. Marco Polo, Christophe Colomb, Pierre Loti ou Gérard de Nerval, explorateurs pour les uns, auteurs romantiques pour les autres, dévoilent des terres lointaines et moins lointaines. Des confins de l'Amérique latine à la Chine en passant par la Turquie, les quatre coins du monde connu sont explorés. À ces voix des siècles passés s'associent des auteurs contemporains, maliens, libanais ou corses, et les coups de crayon de carnettistes résolument modernes et audacieux qui expriment et interrogent l'altérité. Source : https://lti.overdrive.com/media/4252625B-98F3-4BC5-89D7-760A0A3833C5

PYUN HYE YOUNG et al / 편혜영 / 2017 / -

Winner of the 2017 Shirley Jackson Award Named One of the Top 10 Thrillers to Read This Summer by Time Magazine. In this tense, gripping novel by a rising star of Korean literature, Oghi has woken from a coma after causing a devastating car accident that took his wife's life and left him paralyzed and badly disfigured. His caretaker is his mother-in-law, a widow grieving the loss of her only child. Oghi is neglected and left alone in his bed. His world shrinks to the room he lies in and his memories of his troubled relationship with his wife, a sensitive, intelligent woman who found all of her life goals thwarted except for one: cultivating the garden in front of their house. But soon Oghi notices his mother-in-law in the abandoned garden, uprooting what his wife had worked so hard to plant and obsessively digging larger and larger holes. When asked, she answers only that she is finishing what her daughter started. A bestseller in Korea, award-winning author Hye-young Pyun's The Hole is a superbly crafted and deeply unnerving novel about the horrors of isolation and neglect in all of its banal and brutal forms. As Oghi desperately searches for a way to escape, he discovers the difficult truth about his wife and the toll their life together took on her. Source : https://lti.overdrive.com/media/1755FA96-A24E-461D-BF16-97FFCE433174

PYUN HYE YOUNG et al / 편혜영 / 2018 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century

NAMED AN NPR GREAT READ OF 2018 From the Shirley Jackson Award–winning author of The Hole, a Kafkaesque tale of crime and punishment hailed by Korea's Wall Street Journal as "an airtight masterpiece." Distinguished for his talents as a rat killer, the nameless protagonist of Hye-young Pyun's City of Ash and Red is sent by the extermination company he works for on an extended assignment in C, a country descending into chaos and paranoia, swept by a contagious disease, and flooded with trash. No sooner does he disembark than he is whisked away by quarantine officials and detained overnight. Isolated and forgotten, he realizes that he is stranded with no means of contacting the outside world. Still worse, when he finally manages to reach an old friend, he is told that his ex-wife's body was found in his apartment and he is the prime suspect. Barely managing to escape arrest, he must struggle to survive in the streets of this foreign city gripped with fear of contamination and reestablish contact with his company and friends in order to clear his reputation. But as the man's former life slips further and further from his grasp, and he looks back on his time with his wife, it becomes clear that he may not quite be who he seems. From the bestselling author of The Hole, City of Ash and Red is an apocalyptic account of the destructive impact of fear and paranoia on people's lives as well as a haunting novel about a man's loss of himself and his humanity. Source : https://lti.overdrive.com/media/703ECC03-101D-418B-8BE9-054AB53BF75F

PYUN HYE YOUNG et al / 편혜영 / 2020 / -

From the award-winning author of The Hole, a "Simmering" (New York Times Book Review) and "Compelling" (Wall Street Journal ) thriller—"A mystery masterpiece . . . Hye-young Pyun at her best" (Books & Bao), named a "Best International Crime Novel of 2020" (CrimeReads) and selected as one of "Our 65 Favorite Books of the Year" (LitHub) The Law of Lines follows the parallel stories of two young women whose lives are upended by sudden loss. When Se-oh, a recluse still living with her father, returns from an errand to find their house in flames, wrecked by a gas explosion, she is forced back into the world she had tried to escape. The detective investigating the incident tells her that her father caused the explosion to kill himself because of overwhelming debt she knew nothing about, but Se-oh suspects foul play by an aggressive debt collector and sets out on her own investigation, seeking vengeance. Ki-jeong, a beleaguered high school teacher, receives a phone call from the police saying that the body of her younger half-sister has just been found. Her sister was a college student she had grown distant from. Though her death, by drowning, is considered a suicide by the police, that doesn't satisfy Ki-jeong, and she goes to her sister's university to find out what happened. Her sister's cell phone reveals a thicket of lies and links to a company that lures students into a virtual pyramid scheme, preying on them and their relationships. One of the contacts in the call log is Se-oh. Like Hye-young Pyun's Shirley Jackson Award–winning novel The Hole, The Law of Lines an immersive thriller that explores the edges of criminality in ordinary lives, the unseen forces that shape us, and grief and debt. Source : https://lti.overdrive.com/media/48722177-3712-4E56-8A8F-4FEC657CC242

PYUN HYE YOUNG et al / 편혜영 / 2020 / -

When Se-oh, a recluse still living with her father, returns from an errand to find their house in flames, wrecked by a gas explosion, she is forced back into the world she had tried to escape. The detective investigating the incident tells her that her father caused the explosion to kill himself because of overwhelming debt she knew nothing about, but Se-oh suspects foul play by an aggressive debt collector and sets out on her own investigation, seeking vengeance. Ki-jeong, a beleaguered high-school teacher, receives a phone call from the police saying that the body of her younger half-sister has just been found. Her sister was a college student she had grown distant from. Although her death, by drowning, is considered a suicide by the police, that doesn't satisfy Ki-jeong, and she goes to her sister's university to find out what happened. Her sister's cell phone reveals a thicket of lies and links to a company that lures students into a virtual pyramid scheme, preying on them and their relationships. One of the contacts in the call log is Se-oh. Like Hye-young Pyun's Shirley Jackson Award-winning novel The Hole, The Law of Lines is an immersive thriller that explores the edges of criminality in ordinary life, the unseen forces that shape us, and grief and debt. Source : https://lti.overdrive.com/media/B0128E56-F59E-46A9-9B0C-570D6B98EF50

PYUN HYE YOUNG et al / 편혜영 / 2019 / -

Kann das Leben einen so tiefen Riss bekommen, dass man durch ihn hinabstürzt und darin verschwindet? Ogi hat Schuld an dem Unfall, durch den seine Frau getötet wurde. Im Haus seiner Schwiegermutter vegetiert er nun schwer verletzt vor sich hin. Seine Welt schrumpft zu dem Bett, in dem er liegt. Im Inneren halten beunruhigende Gedanken an seine Frau ihn gefangen. Draußen verwandelt sich ihr üppiger Garten in einen welken Orten, entstellt von dunklen Löchern, die die Schwiegermutter wie besessen gräbt. Was verbirgt sich hinter der unheimlichen Obsession für den Garten? Ein so kafkaesker wie hypnotisierender Roman von den verstörenden Rissen, die Einsamkeit, Schuld und Entwurzelung im Leben hinterlassen können. Source : https://lti.overdrive.com/media/ADD79979-DD39-4064-BC3B-86CE2EC102AD

Pyun Hye Young / 편혜영 / 2020 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century

Distinguished for his talents as a rat killer, the nameless protagonist of Hye-young Pyun's City of Ash and Red is sent by the extermination company he works for on an extended assignment in C, a country descending into chaos and paranoia, swept by a contagious disease, and flooded with trash. No sooner does he disembark than he is whisked away by quarantine officials and detained overnight. Isolated and forgotten, he realizes that he is stranded with no means of contacting the outside world. Still worse, when he finally manages to reach an old friend, he is told that his ex-wife's body was found in his apartment and that he's the prime suspect. Barely managing to escape arrest, he must struggle to survive in the streets of this foreign city, gripped with fear of contamination, and reestablish contact with his company and friends in order to clear his reputation. But as the man's former life slips further and further from his grasp, he looks back on his time with his wife, and it becomes clear that he may not quite be who he seems. From the bestselling author of The Hole, City of Ash and Red is an apocalyptic account of the destructive impact of fear and paranoia on people's lives as well as a haunting novel about a man's loss of himself and his humanity. Source : https://lti.overdrive.com/media/01993D17-D528-426B-ACFC-F1DC790D1E72

PYUN HYE YOUNG et al / 편혜영 / 2020 / -

In this tense, gripping novel by a star of Korean literature, Oghi wakes from a coma after causing a devastating car accident that took his wife's life and left him paralyzed and badly disfigured. His caretaker is his mother-in-law, a widow grieving the loss of her only child. Oghi is neglected and left alone in his bed. His world shrinks to the room he lies in and his memories of his troubled relationship with his wife, a sensitive, intelligent woman who found all of her life goals thwarted except for one: cultivating the garden in front of their house. But soon Oghi notices his mother-in-law in the abandoned garden, uprooting what his wife had worked so hard to plant and obsessively digging larger and larger holes. When asked, she answers only that she is finishing what her daughter started.As Oghi desperately searches for a way to escape, he discovers the difficult truth about his wife and the toll their life together took on her. The winner of the Shirley Jackson Award and a bestseller in Korea, The Hole is a superbly crafted and deeply unnerving novel about the horrors of isolation and neglect in all of its banal and brutal forms. Source : https://lti.overdrive.com/media/5712344?cid=37224

Lee Hyoseok et al / 이효석 et al / 2023 / -

This eclectic, moving and richly enjoyable collection is the essential introduction to Korean literature. Journeying through Korea's dramatic recent past, from the Japanese occupation and colonial era to the devastating war between north and south and the rapid, disorienting urbanization of later decades, The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories captures a hundred years of vivid storytelling. Here are peddlers and donkeys travelling across moonlit fields; artists drinking and debating in the tea-houses of 1920s Seoul; soldiers fighting for survival; exiles from the war who can never go home again; and lonely men and women searching for connection in the dizzying modern city. The collection features stories by some of Korea's greatest writers, including Pak Wanso, O Chonghui and Cho Chongnae, as well as many brilliant contemporary voices, such as P'yon Hyeyong, Han Yujoo and Kim Aeran. Curated by Bruce Fulton, this is a volume that will surprise, unsettle and delight. source: https://lti.overdrive.com/media/9768586?cid=37224