Library of Korean Literature – serie
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21 produkter
My Son's Girlfriend
Häftad, 2014
159 kr
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At once an ironic portrayal of contemporary Korea and an intimate exploration of heartache, alienation, and nostalgia, this collection of seven short stories has earned the author widespread critical acclaim.
Contrived World
Häftad, 2016
277 kr
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Set in San Francisco, A Contrived World recounts the author’s visit to the mythic Californian city. While the novel is based in this real experience, the narrator’s imaginative reflections cause the narrative to balloon outward into the realms of fiction and fantasy. Each chance encounter provides …
No One Writes Back
Av Jang Eun-Jin
Häftad, 2014
204 kr
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Communication--or the lack thereof--is the subject of this sly update of the picaresque.
God Has No Grandchildren
Häftad, 2016
197 kr
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The nine stories that make up this collection depict a wide variety of contemporary Koreans navigating a world focused on material wealth and social power, in which family ties have been disrupted and all relationships are dysfunctional. Unpredictable and enigmatic, these tales, though taking place …
Good Family
Av Hajin Seo
Häftad, 2016
197 kr
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This collection of eight stories—cynical and sympathetic by turns—represents the author’s attempt to document and understand the conflicts, resentments, hatreds, and anxieties of contemporary family life. The title story depicts a mother’s busy day playing numerous roles—ashamed, fearless, or …
Turbid River
Av Man-Sik Chae
Häftad, 2017
257 kr
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Turbid Rivers was written just before Ch’ae Man-Sik was arrested in 1938 by the Japanese colonial government. Like the two novels that followed (Peace Under Heaven and Frozen Fish), Turbid River is a realistic portrayal of life in Korea under Japanese colonization. The tragic story of a woman’s …
Lonesome You
Av Park Wan-Suh
Häftad, 2014
181 kr
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In this collection by a canonical figure in Korean literature, meditations upon life in old age come to the fore -- at its best, accompanied by great beauty and compassion; at its worst by a cynicism that nonetheless turns a bitter smile upon the changing world.
Soil
Av Yi Kwang-Su
Häftad, 2014
185 kr
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A major, never before translated novel by the author of "Muj?ng / The Heartless"--often called the first modern Korean novel--"The Soil" tells the story of an idealist dedicating his life to helping the inhabitants of the rural community in which he was raised. Striving to influence the poor …
House with a Sunken Courtyard
Av Kim Won-Il
Häftad, 2014
185 kr
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An occasionally terrifying and always vivid portrayal of what it was like to live as a refugee immediately after the end of the Korean War.
When Adam Opens His Eyes
Av Jang Jung-Il
Häftad, 2014
172 kr
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First published in 1990, this is a sensational and highly controversial novel by one of Korea's most electrifying contemporary authors. A preposterous coming-of-age story, melding sex, death, and high school in a manner reminiscent of some perverse collision between Georges Bataille and Beverly …
One Spoon on This Earth
Häftad, 2014
181 kr
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An autobiographical novel that takes a life to pieces, "One Spoon on this Earth" stands a sort of digest of contemporary Korean history as it might be seen through the lens of one man's life and opinions.
Most Ambiguous Sunday and Other Stories
Häftad, 2014
172 kr
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Originally published in Korean as Moksin ui otton ohu by Munhak Tongne, Paju, 2008--Title page verso.
At Least We Can Apologize
Av Lee Ki-Ho
Häftad, 2014
159 kr
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At Least We can Apologize focuses on an agency whose only purpose is to offer apologies--for a fee--on behalf of its clients. This seemingly insignificant service leads us into an examination of sin, guilt, and the often irrational demands of society. A kaleidoscope of minor nuisances and major …
Rina
Häftad, 2016
256 kr
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Rina is a defector from a country that might be North Korea, traversing an “empty and futile” landscape. Along the way, she is forced to work at a chemical plant, murders a few people, becomes a prostitute, runs a lucrative bar, and finds a solace in a motley family of wanderers all as …
Private Life of Plants
Av Seung-U Lee
Häftad, 2016
185 kr
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The Private Life of Plants is about the ways in which desire can both worsen and mitigate our flaws. We meet amputee sons whose mothers cart them from brothel to brothel; we meet brothers who love their brother’s lovers, and whose lovers in turn are stolen away by the husbands of their sisters. …
Son of Man
Av Mun-yol Yi
Häftad, 2016
197 kr
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One of the greatest living Korean writers here details the quest of a young seminary student seeking transcendence, running through many Western and East Asian theologies in the process. Deciding that Jesus was not truly “the son of man,” the student sets out to create his own alternative to …
Library of Musical Instruments
Häftad, 2017
197 kr
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The second short-story collection by Kim Jung-hyuk, the author of Penguin News, features a total of eight short stories, including “Syncopation D” which won the 2nd Kim You-jeong Literary Award in 2008. They represent the many sounds sampled by the author when he recorded over 600 kinds of musical …
Mannequin
Av Yun Ch'oe
Häftad, 2017
172 kr
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Ch’oe Yun’s Mannequin is a novel that reflects on the meaning of beauty and its many facets of existence. The beauty of the main character, Jini, is captured through a carefree imagination that describes it as “the music of the wind,” or something that can’t be described in words. Through the …
Evening Proposal
Häftad, 2017
192 kr
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Evening Proposal is a collection of eight stories about the grim and often faceless nature of urban life. Faintly reminiscent of Franz Kafka, the stories range from a man who discovers that his job performance has no significance while taking refuge in taking care of an abandoned rabbit to a man …
Beauty Looks Down On Me
Av Eun Heekyung
Häftad, 2017
185 kr
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Beauty Looks Down On Me is a collection of by turns sad and funny stories about the thwarted expectations of the young as they grow older. HeeKyung’s characters are misfits who by virtue of their bodies or their lack of social status are left to dream of momentous changes that will never come. …
Amusing Life
Av Sokze Song
Häftad, 2017
181 kr
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The Amusing Life is a collection of over forty stories, sketches, vignettes and fables that search out the comical, even the absurd, aspects of everyday life. Along the way, the conventions and mores of work, art, nation, love and family are examined and made newly strange. Two rival countries race …
