Showing results for "Korean" in Genre Fiction

From the bestselling author of Almond, The Devil Wears Prada meets The Office in this witty, humane, and ultimately transformative story of a group of young workers who rebel against the status quo. Jihye is an ordinary woman who has never been extraordinary. In her administrative job at the...

A woman meets her next-door neighbor and loans her a spatula, then starts suffering horrific gaps in her memory. A man, feeling jilted by an unrequited love, becomes obsessed with sorting through his neighbors' garbage in the belief that it will teach him how to better relate to people. A landlord decides to raise the rent, and his tenants hatch a plan to kill him at a team-building retreat. In 10 captivating, unnerving stories, Flowers of Mold presents a range of ordinary individuals who have found themselves left behind by an increasingly urbanized and fragmented world.

North Korea's deadliest weapon is sleeper agent Song Sun Young. Married with children and living the good life in New York City, she has waited seven years to activate the mission she was trained to do: infiltrate America's financial infrastructure. She prays the call from her handlers will never come, because she loves her husband and kids and affluent New York lifestyle. But the call does come. During volatile negotiations between the White House and Pyongyang, Song is hurled back into a reality she had hoped to leave behind forever.

National Book Award Finalist Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author of The Namesake comes an extraordinary new novel, set in both India and America, that expands the scope and range of one of our most dazzling storytellers: a tale of two...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An epic journey into the heart of North Korea and the world’s most mysterious dictatorship. “Imagine Charles Dickens paying a visit to Pyongyang, and you see the canvas on which [Adam] Johnson is painting here.”—The...

A wild, sweeping novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves on the present—loaded with assassins and mad poets, RPGs and slasher films, pop bands and the perils of social media “Your view of twentieth-century history will be enlarged and altered...

WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations. Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is...

From the National Book Award winning author, an extraordinary, ground-breaking, epic multi-generational novel about a Korean family living under Japanese occupation. In 1930s Japanese-occupied Korea, Lee Woo-cheol was a running prodigy and a contender for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. But he...

एक युवा मन में कितनी कातरता, कितनी बेचैनी उभरकर आयी है, इसका अनुमान आप उपन्यास प्रारम्भ करते ही लगा लेंगे। चौबीस वर्षीय पंकज को जब यह पता चलता है कि उसकी माँ उसकी माँ नहीं है, तब अपने असली माँ- बाप को जानने की तड़प उसे दीवानगी की हदों तक ले जाती है। ये क़िताब इस बात का पुख़्ता सबूत है कि मशहूर लेखिका अमृता प्रीतम के लेखन में न सिर्फ़ भावनात्मक गहराई थी बल्कि शब्द-शिल्प का अपार कौशल भी था।

A boy of just six years old, Austin Roberts found himself perpetually in the way at the post-funeral gathering of his great uncle Jack. Frustrated and alone, he wandered out onto the front porch to find his great uncle Cat, Jack's brother, sitting alone, an old album on his lap. Oblivious to the world around them, the two begin an unlikely conversation and together embark on a journey that stretches almost seven decades in length.

ONE OF THE ATLANTIC’S GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS OF THE PAST 100 YEARS The debut novel from critically acclaimed and New York Times–bestselling author of On Such a Full Sea and My Year Abroad. In Native Speaker, author Chang-rae Lee introduces readers to Henry Park. Park has spent his entire life...

『화재감시원』 『둠즈데이북』 『개는 말할 것도 없고』 『블랙아웃』에 이어 옥스퍼드 시간 여행 시리즈 마침내 완결30년 만에 완성한 가장 위대한 시간 여행 시리즈2060년의 옥스퍼드는 시간 여행을 하는 수십 명의...

An Instant USA TODAY bestseller! “Spectacular! Full of Susan Lee’s trademark humor and vulnerability, but with swoonworthy spice!" —Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author of Problematic Summer Romance “Introspective, funny, relatable, sexy—it’s an absolutely perfect romance...

'누구에게나 잊지 못할 마음의 맛이 있다' 부드럽고 달콤한 변두리 동네의 인정 넘치는 이야기 제6회 덴류문학상 수상작 일본 25만 부 판매 베스트셀러 '화과자에는 배려의 마음이 아로새겨져 있다. 귀여운 모양, 품위 있는...

'누구에게나 잊지 못할 마음의 맛이 있다' 부드럽고 달콤한 변두리 동네의 인정 넘치는 이야기 제6회 덴류문학상 수상작 일본 25만 부 판매 베스트셀러 '화과자에는 배려의 마음이 아로새겨져 있다. 귀여운 모양, 품위 있는...

This “sweeping intergenerational saga" tells the story of a pampered and defiant South Korean matriarch thrust into the afterlife from which she seeks a second chance to make amends (Kirstin Chen)—and fights off a tragic curse that could devastate generations to come. In South Korea, a...

평범한 대학병원에서 벌어지는 충격의 진실 게임 바다에 접한 혜성대학교병원에서 근무하는 젊은 의사 현우. 어느 날 그는 병원에서 소동을 피운 담당 환자 수아로부터 놀라운 이야기를 듣는다. 아버지가 작년에 이 병원에...

"누구에게나 잊지 못할 마음의 맛이 있다" 부드럽고 달콤한 변두리 동네의 인정 넘치는 이야기 제6회 덴류문학상 수상작 일본 25만 부 판매 베스트셀러 도쿄 아사쿠사 상점가의 오래된 화과자점 구리마루당을 물려받은 젊은...

흐드러진 능소화가 한순간 죽음을 맞은 후, 그녀의 몸속에서 피어났다 개와 늑대의 시간에서, 잔혹한 농담 같은 삶의 진실 의사 심영빈은 교사인 부인과 두 딸, 어머니와 함께 살고 있는 40대의 가장이다. 그의 위로는 가장의...

제11회 네오픽션상 우수상 수상작 그 순간부터 시작된 거야. 이토록 작고 귀여운 나를 향한 세상의 잔혹한 박해가! 현실의 틈에서 상영 중인 명랑한 잔혹동화 인형이 인형답지 않아진 순간, 인형은 생명력을 잃는다는 진실...