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1) Lemon
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Language
English
Description
"In this piercing psychological portrait that takes the shape of a crime novel, a woman haunted by her sister's unsolved murder transforms herself in order to cope with the pain of absence and unknowing. In the summer of 2002, when Korea is abuzz over hosting the FIFA World Cup, nineteen-year-old Kim Hae-on is killed in what becomes known as the High School Beauty Murder. Two suspects quickly emerge: rich kid Shin Jeongjun, whose car Hae-on was last...
2) Whale
Author
Publisher
Archipelago Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Whale, set in a remote Jeju village in the 1950s, follows the lives of three mythical characters: Geumbok, an extremely ambitious woman who has been chasing an indescribable thrill ever since she first saw a whale crest in the ocean; her mute daughter, Chunhui, who communicates with elephants; and a one-eyed woman who controls honeybees with a whistle. Brimming with surprises and wicked humor, The Whale is a rare, cinematic satire about modernity...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
""A cool, crafty did-he-do-it thriller...The Good Son will rivet readers of Jo Nesbo and Patricia Highsmith." --A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window. The Talented Mr. Ripley meets The Bad Seed in this breathless, chilling psychological thriller by the #1 international bestselling novelist known as "Korea's Stephen King" Who can you trust if you can't trust yourself? Early one morning, twenty-six-year-old Yu-jin...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Written in seventeenth-century Korea, this classic novel's wondrous story begins when a young monk living on a sacred Lotus Peak in China succumbs to the temptation of eight fairy maidens. For doubting his mother's Buddhist teachings, the monk is forced to endure a strange punishment: reincarnation as the most ideal of men. On his journey through this new life full of material, martial, and sensual accomplishments beyond his wildest dreams, each success...
Series
Yi Sang Munhaksang susang chakpʻumjip volume che 36-hoe (2012)
Publisher
Munhak Sasang
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Korean
11) Familiar things
Author
Publisher
Scribe Publications
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Seoul. On the outskirts of South Korea's glittering metropolis is a place few people know about: a vast landfill site called Flower Island. Home to those driven from the city by poverty, is it here that 14-year-old Bugeye and his mother arrive, following his father's internment in a government 're-education camp'. Living in a shack and supporting himself by weeding recyclables out of the refuse, at first Bugeye's life on Flower Island is hard. But...
18) Shuang mian ren
Author
Series
Hei tian e wen cong volume 004
Publisher
Xin hua chu ban she
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
中文
Author
Series
Soul volume 041
Publisher
Ji mo chu ban she gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
中文
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